Sermons
Subtitle: Volume 1
Publisher: James Burns
Published: 1843
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Description: Volume 1 of 4.
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: SERMON I.; title: THE MYSTERY OF SIN.; title: By one man sin entered into the world . — Romans v. 12. 1; title: SERMON II.; title: CHRISTIANS NEW CREATURES.; title: If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature : old things are passed away ; behold, all things are become new. — 2 Cor . v. 17. 19; title: SERMON III.; title: ON FALLING FROM THE GRACE OF BAPTISM.; title: Remember Lot's wife. — St. Luke xvii. 32. 34; title: SERMON IV.; title: THE MYSTERY OF MAN'S BEING.; title: I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are Thy works ; and that ray soul knoweth right well . — Psalm cxxxix. 14. 47; title: SERMON V.; title: WORLDLY AFFECTIONS DESTRUCTIVE OF LOVE TO GOD.; title: Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. — 1 St. John ii. 15. 62; title: SERMON VI.; title: SALVATION A DIFFICULT WORK.; title: Enter ye in at the strait gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat : because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. — St . Matthew vii. 13, 14. 77; title: SERMON VII.; title: A SEVERE LIFE NECESSARY FOR CHRIST FOLLOWERS.; title: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. — St . Luke ix. 23 89; title: SERMON VIII.; title: CHRIST OUR ONLY REST.; title: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me ; for I am meek and lowly in heart : and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. — St. Matthew xi. 28-30 105; title: SERMON IX.; title: THE DANGER OF MISTAKING KNOWLEDGE FOR OBEDIENCE.; title: But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. — St. James i. 22, 23, 24 117; title: SERMON X.; title: OBEDIENCE THE ONLY REALITY.; title: The world passeth away, and the lust thereof ; but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. — 1 John ii. 17.  129; title: SERMON XI.; title: THE LIFE OF CHRIST THE ONLY TRUE IDEA OF SELF-DEVOTION.; title: All seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's. — Philippians ii. 21 146; title: SERMON XII.; title: THE REWARDS OF THE NEW CREATION.; title: Then answered Peter and said unto Him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed Thee ; what shall we have therefore?; title: And Jesus said unto them. Verily I say unto you. That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of His glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundred-fold, and shall inherit everlasting life. — St. Matthew xix. 27, 28, 29 159; title: SERMON XIII.; title: GOD'S KINGDOM INVISIBLE.; title: And when He was demanded of the Pharisees when the kingdom of God should come. He answered them and said. The kingdom of God cometh not with observation : neither shall they say, Lo here ! or, lo there ! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. — St. Lake xvii. 20, 21 172; title: SERMON XIV.; title: THE DAILY SERVICE A LAW IN GOD*S KINGDOM.; title: And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the Church daily such as should be saved.— Acts ii. 46, 47 186; title: SERMON XV.; title: THE HIDDEN LIFE; title: Your life is hid with Christ in God . — Colossians iii. 3208; title: SERMON XVI.; title: SINS OF INFIRMITY.; title: Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation : the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. — St. Matthew xxvi. 41. 223; title: SERMON XVII.; title: SELF-OBLATION THE TRUE IDEA OF OBEDIENCE.; title: 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? — Hebrews ix. 13, 14. 242; title: SERMON XVIII.; title: THE SPIRITUAL CROSS.; title: About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say. My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? — St. Matthew xxvii. 46 258; title: SERMON XIX.; title: THE HIDDEN POWER OF CHRIST'S PASSION.; title: And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. — St. John xii. 32. 274; title: SERMON XX.; title: SUFFERING THE SCHOOL OF OBEDIENCE.; title: Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered . — Hebrews v. 8 287; title: SERMON XXI.; title: THE SLEEP OF THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED.; title: I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him. — 1 Thessalonians iv. 13, 14. 308; title: SERMON XXII.; title: THE COMMEMORATION OF THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED.; title: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. — 1 Cor. xv. 51. 320; title: SERMON XXIII.; title: THE WAITING OF THE INVISIBLE CHURCH.; title: And when He had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying. How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost Thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them ; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow-servants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. — Revelation vi. 9, 10, 11 333; title: SERMON XXIV.; title: THE WAITING OF THE VISIBLE CHURCH.; title: This I say, brethren, the time is short : it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none ; and they that weep, as though they wept not ; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not ; and they that buy, as though they possessed not ; and they that use this world, as not abusing it : for the fashion of this world passetb away — 1 Corinthians v ii. 29, 30, 31. 349; title: SERMON XXV.; title: THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY.; title: Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself : handle me, and see ; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. — St. Luke xxiv. 39 364; title: SERMON XXVI.; title: THE GLORY OF THE RIGHTEOUS.; title: Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. — St. Matthew xiii. 43 384