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Sermons on selected lessons of the New Testament
Sermons on selected lessons of the New Testament Author:Augustine 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: Our Father's gifts possessed with Himself in Heaven. 99 clothed, we shall not befovnd naked. For we shall be clothed Serm. i,v B'i by our faith: and thi... more »s faith is at once a garment and ' breastplate; a garment against shame, a breastplate against adversity. But when we shall have arrived at that place where we shall reign, no need will there be to say the Creed. We shall see God ; God Himself will be our vision ; the vision of God will be the reward of our present faith. SERMON IX. [LIX. Ben.] Again, on the Lord's Prayer, Matt. vi. To the Competentes. 1. Yoo have rehearsed what you believe, hear now what you i. are to pray for. Forasmuch as you would not be able to call on Him, in Whom you should not first have believed; as saith the Apostle, How shall they call on Him, in Whom they have Rom. not believed? Therefore have you first learned the Creed,10'14' where is a brief and sublime rule of your faith; brief in the number of its words, sublime in the weight of its contents'.' senten. But the prayer which you receive to.day to be learned by heart, and to be repeated eight days hence, was dictated (as you heard when the Gospel was being read) by the Lord Himself to His disciples, and came from them unto us, since their sound went into all the earth. Ps.i8,5. 2. Ye then who have found a Father in heaven, be loth to P' ( I .", 4 cleave to the things of earth. For ye are about to say, Our E. V.) Father, Which art in heaven. You have begun to belong to a 9.att' 6, great family. Under this Father the Lord and the slave are brethren; under this Father the general and the common soldier are brethren; under this Father the rich man and the poor are brethren. All Christian believers have divers fathers in earth, some noble, some obscure; but they all call up...« less