Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may
apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
—Phil 3.12

The

Life, Correspondence, & Sermons

of

JOHN WELCH,

Sometime Minister of the Gospel in AYR.

The following documents are all excerpted from the volume of Mr. Welch’s “Select Sermons,” Life, & Letters published in Glasgow, 1752.

A Letter from the Publisher to the Reader.

His Life: Part 1.

A Letter to Dame Lillias Graham, Countess of Wigtoun.

A Prophetical Letter to Sir William Livingston of Kilsyth.

His Life: Part 2.

Select Sermons:

Sermons 1 & 2: Rev. 20.11,12. — On the Day of Judgment.

Sermon 23: Psalm 42:1,2,3, &c.

Sermon 31: Exodus 20:4-6.

Sermon 42: John 3:16,17.

Sermon 43: John 3:16,17.

Sermon 44: John 3:17.

Sermon 45: John 3:18.

Sermon 47: Romans 8:1,2,3, &c.

Sermon 48: Romans 8:1-4, 18, 37, &c.

Treatises:

Justification by Faith Alone: An excerpt from Mr. Welch’s Popery Anatomized or Reply to Gilbert Brown, first published in 1602.