New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-10-08
BISHOP SELWYN,S SERMON.

good to the Holy Ghost and us"-Acu
Behold, brethren, q Synod in the highest
sense 1t seemed good to the Holy Ghost and TO U.S.
God the Holy Ghost uniting believers with Himself by
the spirit OF counsel st. Paul tells us in Cor ill.,, Q.
that we are aborers together with God, and he adds
" Ye are Gods husbandry, ye are Gods building" The
world is the field in which God works with US: He 90
the Lord Of the harvest; we as the laborers The
Church is the building growing into holy temple
(Ephee H. ~ IN which God the master builder and
we the workmcn AS Christ is both the priest and the
sacrifice so He both the maserbuder and the chief
Aud We in like manner, are both the work
men and the stOnes-w0rkmen 10 lay Ourselvesas LIVING
stones upon the foundation which is Christ aloDe
in whom we are buided together for a habitation OF
God through the Spirit Ephes. H. 49, In this character
Of laborers together with God," Paul and Barnabas
went w to Jerusalem and there declared to the Church
and TO the Apostles eders all things that God bad
done with them (Acts XIV. ~. SO also at Antioch they
rehearsed all that God had done with them tActs xiv.
a. The ua words of St. Marks Gospel are thus seen
in their course of fuflment: THEY" that is, the
Apostles went forth and preached everywhere, the
Lord working with them" Mark 2o) United work Is
the result Of united counsel There must be one mind
before there can work When the builders OF Babel
could not understand anohers speech they left on
to build the city Gen. Il 81. Not SO when the Lord
bpds the house. The labor will not be lost OF them that
| build it psalm cxxv, ~. AS the master builder God
laws the foundation and gives grace to them that build
III. ILL.,.
that special grace II may be called unity or the sprs
n, council but Its special name ia edifcaton a. Cor,
xiv 26 Let all things be done unto edifying Tue rue
by which we work is the mind OF the Master Builder
The plumbline (Amos, vii y, the measurngreed ZEE
kie w. 81 and the square, are the Lords The pattern
of things on earth first conceived In heaven The
foundation on which bull laid by the foreknowl-
edge of God. He that built all things is God tHeb, ILL., ~
It Wac no part OF the creed Of the Apostolic
Church that every might build upon this ouDda-
daton as he pleased. 1t was not enough to say Il
bud upon the foundation OF Christi; whether he ont
GOLD silver and precious stones. or WOOD nay ana
stubble Il Cor, iii. 12). PLAN warning was given:
Let every man take heed how he bulldeth thereupoD'
for the fire shall try every mans work Of what sort t
ia, ub ill., 49, There place for rival bands OK
buders This was the earnest exhortatlon OF st. Paul
TO the Corinthians d. H. when he heard that there were
contentious among them: Now 1 beseeeh you'
brethren by the Of Lord Jesus Christ that ye
all sneak the same thing and that there be no division
among YOU but that be perfectly joined together IN
the same mind and in the same Judgment"
No man mad better right to assert opinion Of his
own than st. Paul He had been called from his
mothers womb; he had the Lord Jesus Christ he
had heard the voice the Lord speaking to him from
Heavens he had been caught up into the third Heaven
to hear unspeakable words II he had claimed to tho
utermOst the right Of private judgment and rejected oil
counsel of his brethren he at least. any man, might
have been excused But this not the mind OF the
Lord Jesus as the Lord Himself had revealed 1t to him,
this was not the way along which the Holy Ghost led
hum this was not the lesson which ne learned aud prac
tieed at the Synod Of the Apostles and Elders 40
Jerusaem this was not the example which he saw aud
followed when he received, late In the day,
born out Of due time, into that church IN which the
multitude Of them that believed were OF one heart and
ono soul tActs w., 32. Tho thought was thus deeply
rooted In the Apostles mind that Ged is not God OF
confusion, but of peace" Il. Cor, Xiv 49,
The right Of private judgment not abolished but
placed under due control Each believer might have
his own special gifts, by which one man would differ
from another; one, the word OF wisdom to another
the word Of knowledge to another faith TO another
the gifts Of healing to another the working Of miracles:
TO another prophecy to another discerning OF spirits
to another divers kinds OF tongues to another the In
OF tongues all these the work OF THAI
one and self.same Spirit dividing 10 every man
ally as he would. These special gifts, like the powers
of foot and head and eye, were for the good Of
whole body There was to be no schism In the body;
but all the members TO have the care one
another Each member Of Christ free to coyet
estly tho best gifts; to pray for more knowledge and
more faith. and inward and spiritual life, yet all
these would bs Of no avail without that more excellent
OF charity that bond OF perfectncss which untes
Gil the several members In the one body. Private Juug
ment free expression of opinion were net forbidden
in that Synod Of Jerusalem. What sasynod put an as
value of Synod " there were no freedom or speeehs
The Apostolic Church was not exempt from dinen
ences OF opinion was NOT onurcu oo9na 20 aeeeps
free 70 against the hebrews that their dows
| were neglected In their daily mnistration. Ike coz