Sermons Author:Charles Robert Maturin 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: PREACHED ON THE DEATH OF LORD NELSOX. ST. JOHN'S GOSPEL, ix. 33. If this man were not of God, he could do nothing: In Jesus Christ, the high-priest of o... more »ur profession, the author and finisher of our faith, we have a merciful high-priest, and one who can be touched %yith the feeling of our infirmities. Every feature of his dispensation confirms this character: while it reveals " wrath against ungodliness and unrighteousness of men," it makes indulgent provision for those infirmities which are the consequences not of vice, but of weakness, for those changes of mindand circumstance which the wisest of us cannot resist, and the best cannot blame. Thus we are exhorted, by its spirit, to exercise a .charitable consideration for local peculiarities in the states of those to whom we are rendering its offices. We are " to rejoice with them that rejoice, to weep with them that weep/' "If any among us is sad, let him pray; if any be merry, let him sing psalms." Thus by adapting itself to the variations of our nature, when their direction is not to evil, it acquires over them an influence the most salutary, it makes our lightest frames tributary to our best, it converts an impulse into a virtue, and extracts from time and place, and the course of things, a power to make themselves remembered and felt, as sometimes supplying the means of grace, and sometimes awakening the hope of glory. If such be the effect produced by the common events of life under this dispensation, what ought we to ascribe to that which we are assembled to comme morate? an .event of which the great? ness, in extent and in consequences, cannot be comprised in the widest sweep of calculation,â??an event not to be viewed in the cold, remote light of a mere political advantageâ??a superiority in the wrestle again...« less