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Sixteen sermons preached in the parish church of Iffley, Oxon
Sixteen sermons preached in the parish church of Iffley Oxon Author:Unknown Author 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: SERMON III. PREACHED ON GOOD TRIDAY, 1839. St. Matthew xxi. 38, 39. When the husbandmen saw the son, they sold among themselves, This is the heir ; come... more », let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him. We have been reading, under the guidance of the Church, of the sufferings of our blessed Saviour through the week. And we are now come to the very day on which we more especially keep up the memory of His death. The services of each successive day have set Him before us in the lowest depth of His humiliation, putting to us a question like that of the prophet of old, 7 it nothing to you, all ye that pass by ? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow ! Not the most indifferent, not the most hardened among us, can indeed regard those sufferings as nothing to them, and pass on as unconcerned as if they had not been called back to their recollection. But there is very great danger of the feelings which are awakened by the sufferings and death of Christ, being allowed to pass away as the morning cloud and as tlie early dew. We feel, as we read of all the contradiction of sinners which He sustained, anger, it may be, against those who treated Him so cruelly and so despitefully. We can scarcely think with patience of any one part of the conduct of His enemies. Take, for instance, those who were sent to apprehend Him in the garden. Even if they had never seen or heard of any of His miracles, or if they had utterly forgotten them, surely they ought to have been shaken in their purpose, when they saw Him heal the ear of the high-priest's servant with a touch. Or, turn from this hardness to the hypocrisy of the Pharisees, when they falsely accused Him before Pilate of having taught the pe...« less