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Sermons on the Lessons, the Gospel, or the Epistle, for Every Sunday in the Year (for Week-Day Festivals) Preached in the Parish Church of
Sermons on the Lessons the Gospel or the Epistle for Every Sunday in the Year Preached in the Parish Church of - for Week-Day Festivals Author:Reginald Heber Title: Sermons on the Lessons, the Gospel, or the Epistle, for Every Sunday in the Year (for Week-Day Festivals) Preached in the Parish Church of Hodnet [ed. by Sir R.h. Inglis]. General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1837 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there ... more »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 books for free. Excerpt: SERMON III. THIRD SUNDAY IN ADVENT. 1 Cor. iv. 5. Judge nothing before the time until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall every man have praise of God. The original application of these words, as they are found in that part of St. Paul's first Epistle to the Corinthians, which has been this morning read to you from the Communion-table, was to the unjust and uncharitable reflections which had been thrown out against the Apostle himself in the course of those disputes which had agitated the Corinthian Church ; and to appease and settle which he sent them this first epistle. It is, therefore, that, while a few verses before, he allows the great necessity and obligation which was laid on the ministers of Christ, and upon himself among the number, to a faithful discharge of their duty, he goes on to tell them, that he, for one, will discharge that duty by the rule of God's will alone, without courting theirpraise, and without fearing their blame. " It is required," says he, " in stewards (such as we are) that a man should be found faithful;" but of this faithfulness, he continues, it is of very little consequence what you or I may think. " With me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you or of man's judgement, yea, I judge not mine own self." I am, indeed, unconscious of having done any thing which could deserv...« less