Sermons, and Other Miscellaneous Pieces (Volume 1) - Softcover

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. 1804. Excerpt: ... Seeing then that we have a great high priest, thai is passed into the leavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. PREPARATION FOR A COMMUNION SABBATH. ON PERSEVERANCE IN RELIGION. VjOD is calling you, in his providence, my brethren, to make a very public and solemn profession of the faith and hope which are in you. It surely concerns you very highly that they be in you of a truth: seeing you have to do with One who seeth, not as man seeth, who regards Hot appearances only, but who searcheth the hearts, and trieth the reins of the children of men; whose "eyes, as a flame of fire, go up "and down through the earth, beholding the evil "and the good." That the practice of manv who call themselves christians, woefully belies their profession, is a truth as affecting as it is evident. As it was in the Apostle's days, so it is in our own: "Many walk," of whom it must be said, with the deepest regret, that "they are "the enemies of the cross of Christ;" for, besides the vast multitudes who either have no profession of religion at all, or who have declared open war against the God of heaven and earth, how many are there of those who would be thought the friends of Christ, who do much to bring reproach on the venerable name whereby they are called, and give to these declared foes of God and goodness much occasion to blaspheme. Hence, the cause of Christianity suffers as much, if not more, by the treachery of false and hollow friends, as by the open malice of avowed enemies. It cannot be reckoned a satire upon the age or place of the world we live in to say, that this corner has seen times at least as favourable to the interests of religion as the present. If in some things we have gone beyond our forefathers, it will hardly be alleged, that a so...