All Saints' Day and Other Sermons, 40 - THE LESSON OF LIFE
Fifth Sunday in Lent.
Chester Training College, 1870. Windsor Castle, 1871.
Hebrews v. 7, 8. "Who in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears, unto Him that was able to save Him from death, and was heard in that He feared; though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things ...read
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All Saints' Day and Other Sermons, 41 - SACRIFICE TO CAESAR OR TO GOD
Eversley, 1869. Chester Cathedral, 1872.
Matthew xxii. 21. "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's."
Many a sermon has been preached, and many a pamphlet written, on this text, and (as too often has happened to Holy Scripture), it has been made to mean the most opposite doctrines, an ...read
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All Saints' Day and Other Sermons, 42 - THE UNJUST STEWARD
Eversley, 1866. NINTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.
Luke xvi. 8. "And the Lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely."
None of our Lord's parables has been as difficult to explain as this one. Learned and pious men have confessed freely, in all ages, that there is much in the parable which they cannot understand; and I am bound to ...read
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All Saints' Day and Other Sermons, 43 - THE RICH AND THE POOR
Chapel Royal, Whitehall, 1871.
Proverbs xxii. 2. "The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all."
I have been asked to preach here this afternoon on behalf of the Parochial Mission Women's Fund. I may best describe the object for which I plead, as an attempt to civilise and Christianise the women of the lower classes in t ...read
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David, 1 - DAVID'S WEAKNESS
Psalm lxxviii. 71, 72, 73. He chose David his servant, and took him away from the sheep-folds. As he was following the ewes great with young ones, he took him; that he might feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. So he fed them with a faithful and true heart, and ruled them prudently with all his power.
I am about to preach to you fo ...read
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David, 2 - DAVID'S STRENGTH
Psalm xxvii. 1. The Lord is my light, and my salvation; whom then shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom then shall I be afraid?
I said, last Sunday, that the key-note of David's character was not the assertion of his own strength, but the confession of his own weakness. And I say it again.
But it is plain that David had s ...read
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David, 3 - DAVID'S ANGER
Psalm cxliii. 11, 12. Quicken me, O Lord, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble. And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.
There are those who would say that I dealt unfairly last Sunday by the Psalms of David; that in order to prove them inspir ...read
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David, 4 - DAVID'S DESERTS
2 Samuel i. 26. I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Passing the love of woman? How can that be, we of these days shall say. What love can pass that, saving the boundless love of him who stooped from heaven to earth, that he might die on the ...read
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David, 5 - FRIENDSHIP; OR, DAVID AND JONATHAN
2 Samuel i. 26. I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Passing the love of woman! That is a hard saying. What love can pass that? Yet David doubtless spoke truth. He was a man who must have had reason enough to know what woman's love was like; ...read
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Discipline and Other Sermons, 1 - DISCIPLINE
(Preached at the Volunteer Camp, Wimbledon, July 14, 1867.)
NUMBERS xxiv. 9.
He couched, he lay down as a lion; and as a great lion. Who dare rouse him up?
These were the words of the Eastern sage, as he looked down from the mountain height upon the camp of Israel, abiding among the groves of the lowland, according to their tribes, in orde ...read
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Discipline and Other Sermons, 2 - THE TEMPLE OF WISDOM
(Preached at Wellington College, All Saints' Day, 1866.)
PROVERBS ix. 1-5.
Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: she hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. She hath sent forth her maidens; she crieth upon the highest places of the city, Whoso is simple, let him turn ...read
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Discipline and Other Sermons, 3 - PRAYER AND SCIENCE
(Preached at St. Olave's Church, Hart Street, before the Honourable Corporation of the Trinity House, 1866.)
PSALM cvii. 23, 24, 28.
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of th ...read
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Discipline and Other Sermons, 4 - GOD'S TRAINING
DEUTERONOMY viii. 2-5.
And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no. And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, n ...read
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Discipline and Other Sermons, 5 - GOOD FRIDAY
HEBREWS ix. 13, 14.
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
The three collects ...read
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Discipline and Other Sermons, 6 - FALSE CIVILIZATION
JEREMIAH xxxv. 19.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
Let us think a while this morning what this text has to do with us; and why this strange story of the Rechabites is written for our instruction, in the pages of Holy Scripture.
Let us take the stor ...read
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Discipline and Other Sermons, 7 - THE NAME OF GOD
ISAIAH l. 10.
Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.
To some persons it may seem strange advice to tell them, that in the hour of darkness, doubt, and sorrow, they will find no comfort like that of ...read
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Discipline and Other Sermons, 8 - THE END OF RELIGION
EPHESIANS iv. 23, 24.
Be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and put ye on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
This text is exceedingly valuable to us for it tells us the end and aim of all religion. It tells us why we are to pray, whether at home or in church; why we are to read our Bibles and good boo ...read
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Discipline and Other Sermons, 9 - THE HUMANITY OF GOD
ST. LUKE xv. 7.
I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
There are three parables in this chapter: all agree in one quality-- in their humanity. God shows us in them that there is something in his character which is like the best ...read
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Discipline and Other Sermons, 10 - GOD'S WORLD
(Preached before the Prince of Wales, at Sandringham, 1866.)
GENESIS i. 1.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
It may seem hardly worth while to preach upon this text. Every one thinks that he believes it. Of course--they say--we know that God made the world. Teach us something we do not know, not something which we do. ...read
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Discipline and Other Sermons, 11 - THE ARMOUR OF GOD
(Preached before the Prince of Wales, at Sandringham, January 20th, 1867.)
EPHESIANS vi. 11.
Put on the whole armour of God.
St. Paul again and again compares himself and the Christians to whom he writes to soldiers, and their lives to warfare. And it was natural that he should do so. Everywhere he went, in those days, he would find Roman ...read
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