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Discourses on Some of the Most Important Doctrines and Duties of Christianity
Discourses on Some of the Most Important Doctrines and Duties of Christianity Author:Peter Smith General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1818 Subjects: Sermons Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christian Ministry / Preaching 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... more » you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SERMON V, ON THE EXCELLENCE OF CHRISTIANITY. John VI. 67, 68, 69. Then said Jesus unto the twelve, will ye also go away f Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord! to whom shall we go ? thou haul the uords of eternal life. And we believe and are sure, that tkou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. WE are informed in the latter part of this chapter, that the doctrine of our Saviour resecting the influence of divine grace, had given such offence to several of his hearers, that many of those who had declared their attachment to his religion, henceforth renounced it as incredible in itself, and requiring too much self-denial from those who professed it. As numbers had thus abandoned the profession of the gospel, our Lord was desirous to try the fidelity of his original disciples, by interrogating them whether they would follow the example of those apostates, whose conduct was so worthy of reprehension. To his question which was addressed to them all, St. Peter replied in their name, with that determined intrepidity for which he was distinguished, and declared his resolution to adhere to his Master through good report, and through bad report. He was persuaded, that the system of faith which Christ promulgated, was the most consonant toworld to eome. It alone could afford consolation to the heart, amidst the various evils to which we are exposed, and mitigate the painful sensations which we feel from temporal and spiritual maladies, by teaching us, that they shall work together for our good ; and that our light...« less