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Readings for the Aged, Selected From Sermons Preached in Sackville College Chapel [ed. by R.f. Littledale].
Readings for the Aged Selected From Sermons Preached in Sackville College Chapel - ed. by R.f. Littledale Author:John Mason Neale General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1878 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When 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 book... more »s for free. Excerpt: SERMON II. CONFESSING AND NOT DENYING. dFourtl) dunttap in 3Btnit: being alto CljrtetmaS iEbe. "AND [john] Confessed And Denied Not; But Confessed, I AM NOT THE CHRIST." -- S. JOHN I. 20. I Have told you before that one of the great things which S. John Baptist did, and for which our Lord said of him, " Verily I say unto you, Of them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist," -- was the plain, bold, straightforward manner in which he spoke the truth. Like it, or like it not, men always heard from him God's message without any parings off or softenings down. When Herod had taken his brother's wife, John said, "It is not lawful for thee to have her." When many of the Pharisees and Sadducees came to his Baptism, John said, " O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come ?"When they sent certain persons to know who and what he was, " John confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Chiiist." But, you may say, Here are a quantity of words that all mean the same thing. If he confessed, of course he denied not; and what need of then repeating over the third time that he confessed. I wish the same thing could be said of us. There are a great many things which we confess, -- and yet which we deny at the same time. Let us see how. We confess that God is our Father. You have just now said, " I believe in God the Father;" to-morrow you will say, "I believe in One God the Father" -- day after day we repeat, " Our Father Which art in Heaven." Then, as He Himself says, " If I am a Father, where is My fear?" Where indeed? We confess wit...« less