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Plymouth Pulpit; Sermons Preached in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn
Plymouth Pulpit Sermons Preached in Plymouth Church Brooklyn Author:Henry Ward Beecher General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1875 Original Publisher: The Pilgrim Press Subjects: Sermons, American Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christian Ministry / Preaching Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. Wh... more »en you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS. " And be found in Him [Christ], not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith l" -- Phil, iii., 9. Here are two expressions, the interpretation of whose meaning has filled the world with infinite pamphlets, and lumbers of books, and has given some comfort, I hope, at any rate, as a compensation for the confusion and stumbling of mind which have awaited the explications of faith and works, or faith and righteousness. It is now the current doctrine, not alone of the Protestant church, but of the Roman Catholic church as well, that faith is of God, that faith is an indispensable quality, and that there is no such thing as salvation without faith. I suppose that multitudes of persons have a very vague impression that faith is a kind of celestial salt that God sprinkles into men, which keeps them, and stimulates them, and makes them relishful; that it is a quality bred, moulded, fixed in heaven, and that it is injected by a divine act; and that when God has breathed it into men, then they have it, exactly as, in a dark room, a coal of fire was put to a candle in the old- fashioned way, and you blew, and a little flame came, and that was a light. Men have an impression that there is a spiritual quality which grows up in God, or around him ; that that quality is indispensable to salvation; thai when men pray for it, it comes down in some mysterious w...« less