Expository Discourses on the Gospels for Every Sunday in the Year, and the Principal Festivals of the United Church of England and Ireland by John Hall (2012, Trade Paperback)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 Excerpt: ...and to Him alone the glory and praise is due. Surely, therefore, if we are partakers of the heavenlycalling,45we shall compassionate the condition of those who are living in error and sin; after the example of our Lord Jesus Christ, who wept at the thought of the ruin that was about to overwhelm His enemies, who wept over their ignorance and their blindness; and even when He was suffering all that their wickedness and malignity inflicted on Him, prayed, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.6 As the Lord Jesus manifested such amazing compassion for His most violent enemies, how ought the compassion of His believing people to be exercised towards those who, being ignorant of themselves and of God, blindly follow the devices and desires of their own evil hearts, and do not submit themselves to His dominion, are not willing that He should reign over them. If our blessed Saviour could endure such contradiction of sinners against Himself1 surely His disciples ought to follow the example of their Master and Lord; or they will come under His reproof: Why call ye Me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?-" Let us seek to imbibe more of the spirit and mind of Christ, and to copy more closely after His blessed example. The more we resemble Heb. iii. 1. - Luke xxiii. 34. - Heb. xii. 3. - Luke vi. 45. Him in our dispositions and in our conduct, the more happy we shall be. If we are sensible that we are indebted to Him for the grace which we have received; if we can humbly say, Whereas I was blind, nowI see; or that once we saw no beauty in Christ, that we should desire Him, but now we know Him as all our salvation and all our desire, M if we have received mercy without any desert or worthiness of our own, surely then the ...
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Expository Discourses on the Gospels for Every Sunday in the Year, and the Principal Festivals of the United Church of England and Ireland