Town and Country Sermons, 21 - THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
(Trinity Sunday.)
John v. 19. Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
This is Trinity Sunday; and on this day we are especially to think of the mystery of the ever-blessed Trin ...read
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Town and Country Sermons, 22 - THE TORMENT OF FEAR
(First Sunday after Trinity.)
1 John iv. 16, 18. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfec ...read
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Town and Country Sermons, 23 - THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT
(Eighth Sunday after Trinity.)
Romans viii. 12. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh; for if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die.
What does walking after the flesh mean? St. Paul tells us himself, in Gal. v., where he uses exactly the same form of words which he does here. 'The works of the flesh,' ...read
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Town and Country Sermons, 24 - THE UNRIGHTEOUS MAMMON
(Ninth Sunday after Trinity.)
Luke xvi. 1-8. And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward. Th ...read
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Town and Country Sermons, 25 - THE SIGHS OF CHRIST
(Twelfth Sunday after Trinity.)
Mark vii. 34, 35. And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
Why did the Lord Jesus look up to heaven? And why, too, did he sigh?
He looked up to heaven, we may beli ...read
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Town and Country Sermons, 26 - THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA
(Twelfth Sunday after Trinity, 1856.)
2 Kings xviii. 9-12. And it came to pass in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria, and besieged it. And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is t ...read
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Town and Country Sermons, 27 - THE INVASION OF THE ASSYRIANS
(Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity, Morning.)
2 Kings xix. 15-19. And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, and said, O Lord God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the Lord, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth. Lord, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, Lord, thine eyes, and see: and ...read
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Town and Country Sermons, 28 - THE TEN LEPERS
(Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity.)
Luke xvii. 17, 18. Were there not ten cleansed, but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.
No men, one would have thought, had more reason to thank God than those nine lepers. Afflicted with a filthy and tormenting disease, hopelessly incurable, at lea ...read
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Town and Country Sermons, 29 - PARDON AND PEACE
(Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity.)
Psalm xxxii. 1-7. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: ...read
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Town and Country Sermons, 30 - THE CENTRAL SUN
(Sunday after Ascension, Evening.)
Ephesians iv. 9. 10. Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.
This is one of those very deep texts which we are not meant to think about every ...read
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Town and Country Sermons, 31 - CHRISTMAS PEACE
(Sunday before Christmas.)
Phil. iv. 4. Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
This is a glorious text, and one fit to be the key-note of Christmas-day. If we will take it to heart, it will tell us how to keep Christmas-day. St. Paul has been speaking of two good women, who seem to have had some difference; and he beseeches them ...read
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Town and Country Sermons, 32 - THE LIFE OF THE SPIRIT
(First Sunday after Christmas.)
Isaiah xxxviii. 16. O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit.
These words are the words of Hezekiah, king of Judah; and they are true words, words from God. But, if they are true words, they are true words for every one--for you and me, for every one here in this church ...read
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Town and Country Sermons, 33 - THE UNCHANGEABLE ONE
Psalm cxix. 89-96. For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants. Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction. I will never forget thy pre ...read
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Town and Country Sermons, 34 - [GREEK: EN TOYTO NIKA]
(Good Friday, 1860.)
1 Corinthians i. 23-25. But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
The ...read
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Town and Country Sermons, 35 - THE ETERNAL MANHOOD
(First Sunday after Easter.)
John xx. 29. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed; blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
The eighth day after the Lord Jesus rose from the dead, he appeared a second time to his disciples. On this day he strengthened St. Thomas's weak faith, by giving hi ...read
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Town and Country Sermons, 36 - THE BATTLE WITHIN
(Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity, 1858.)
Galatians, v. 16, 17. This I say then, Walk in the spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Does this text seem to any of ...read
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Town and Country Sermons, 37 - HYPOCRISY
Matthew xvi. 3. Oh ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
It will need, I think, some careful thought thoroughly to understand this text. Our Lord in it calls the Pharisees and Sadducees hypocrites; because, though they could use their common sense and experience to judge of the weather ...read
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Town and Country Sermons, 38 - A PEOPLE PREPARED FOR THE LORD
Ephesians iii. 3-6. How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery (as I wrote afore in few words, whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ), which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto the holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; that the Gentiles should b ...read
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Town and Country Sermons, 39 - THE WRATH OF LOVE
Psalm cvii. 6. Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
If I were asked to give a reason why I believed the Old Testament to be an inspired and divine book, as well as the New, I could not do better, I think, than to lay my hand on this 107th psalm, and say,-- This is my reason for believing ...read
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True Words for Brave Men, 1 - THE GOOD CENTURION; OR, THE MAN UNDER AUTHORITY
"And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto Him a centurion, beseeching Him and saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home, sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. And Jesus said unto him, I will come and heal him. The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that Thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, an ...read
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