The Old Testament Author:Frederick Denison Maurice 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: SERMON III. NOAH AND ABRAHAM. Lessons for the day, Genesis IX. and XII. Preached at Lincoln's Inn, on Quinquagesima Sunday, March 2,1851. Genesis XII... more ». 1, 2, 3. Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from .thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing : And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. THE following words opened the lesson for this morning : ' And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have Igiven you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.' (Gen. ix. 1—7.) No one, I think, has ever doubted that this is a divine blessing upon the human race. The words are addressed to the representatives of it, who had just escaped from the waters of the flood. Now the two characteristics which were said to belong to man in his...« less