Letters and Sketches of Sermons Author:John Murray Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTER XVIII. To the tame. 1 Can never miss an opportunity of assuring you that I am, with fervency of affection, your friend and brother, and that I am ri... more »ght happy to find you my fellow labourer, may you continually see the good seed you are honored with the privilege of sowing, taking deep root downward, and bringing forth much fruit upward, to the praise of his name, who hath called you to be a witness to that truth, which hath been delivered by the mouth of all God's, holy prophets, ever since the world began. I congratulate you that you have at length passed a happy Christmas, and that in your elevated transports, so many sensible friends have participated— may their numbers still increase, and may you, with your increasing flock, feeding in the rich pasture of the good shepherd, go on from strength to strength, until you shall arrive where you shall no more hunger nor thirst. Yes indeed, your subject was truly glorious—pity it should ever be thought old. We are, however, rapidly hastening to that world, where it will be ever new. Go on, my friend, you will in no wise lose your reward, but you will have frequent need to put up the prayer of the disciples, Lord, increase our faith. I have often told you I am not a ready writer—I wish for my own sake I were. I hardly think my scripture expositions would be of any use to you ; you will find abundantly more satisfaction in receiving divine intelligence directly from the fountain head, from the source of light atid life. However, I sincerely wish our friend's poetical paraphrase of the fourteen first chapters of Isaiah were in print—I have never seen any thing more excellent. I am glad you continue to love your hearers. I wish their rock may never cease to flow, nor they, as beloved of their God, ever cease to slack their...« less