Sermon for the Sixth Sunday after Epiphany
(From the Gospel for St. Matthias'-day, 24th February)
Of the proper marks of true humility.
Matt. xi. 29.-"Learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart."
CHRIST, our blessed Lord, the true master and teacher of all art and virtue, and a pattern of all perfection, when He came down from Heaven to instruct us poor ignorant men, did not see ...read
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Sermon for the Tenth Sunday after Trinity
(From the Epistle for the day)
Admonishing each man to mark what is the office to which he is called of God, and teaching us to practise works of love and virtue, and to refrain from self-will.
1 Cor. xii. 6.-"There are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all."
ST. PAUL tells us in this Epistle that there ...read
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Sermon for the Third Sunday in Advent
(From the Gospel for the day)
How that we must wholly come out from ourselves, that we may go into the wilderness and behold God.
Matt. xi. 7.-"What went ye out into the wilderness for to see?"
OUR Lord Jesus Christ said unto the Jews, "What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?" In these words let us con ...read
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Sermon for the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity
(From the Epistle for the day)
Teaching us that we ought to receive God, in all His gifts, and in all His burdens, with true long-suffering.
2 Cor. iii. 6.-"The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life."
THERE are two sorts of men among God's friends; those of the Old Testament, and those of the New. All the men who should be saved befor ...read
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Sermon for Thursday in Easter Week
How we ought to love God, and how Christ is a Master of the Eternal Good, wherefore we ought to love Him above all things; a Master of the Highest Truth, wherefore we ought to contemplate Him; and a Master of the Highest Perfectness, wherefore we ought to follow after Him without let or hindrance.
John xx. 16.-"She turned herself and said unto H ...read
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Sermon for Whit Sunday
John vi. 44.-"No man can come to Me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw him."
THUS said the blessed Jesus: "No man can come to Me except the Father which hath sent Me draw him." The persecuted, disheartened disciples of Jesus, who were held captive in the bonds of ignorance as with iron fetters, and in their own esteem were lying in the d ...read
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Sermon on a Martyr's Day
Of three sorts of spiritual temptation by which holy men are secretly assailed; to wit: spiritual unchastity, covetousness, and pride.
James i. 12.-"Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love Him.
ALL our life (says Job), so long as we ar ...read
John Tauler