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Discourses on several subjects and occasions. Vol. 1,2, 3rd ed.
Discourses on several subjects and occasions Vol 12 3rd ed Author:George Horne 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: DISCOURSE III. THE NOBLE CONVERT. Acts vill. 34, 35. .And the eunuch anfwered Philip, andfaid, I pray thee, ofwhomfpeaketh the prophet this; of him- fel... more »f, or of fame other man ? Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the fame Scripture, and freached unto,him Jesus. TX7"E are now drawing towards the clofe of Disc. that penitential feafon, fet apart by the m- wifdom of the church for retirement and re- colleftion, confeffion and humiliation, mortification, and felf-denial, meditation and devotion ; to the end that, having difcovered and caft out our fins, having fubdued pride, and extinguifhed concupifcence, having brought the body into fubjeftion, and rendered the E 4 fpirit Disc. fpirit tender, and humble, and holy, we might III- be prepared to attend our bleffed Redeemer, at the celebration of his laft paffover; to accompany him from the garden to the high prieft's palace, from thence to the praetorium, and from thence to mount Calvary; there to take our ftation, with the virgin mother, and the beloved difciple, at the foot of the crofs, and " look on him whom we have pierced." The hiftory therefore of the Ethiopian nobleman's converfion, effefted by St. Philip's expounding to him the liii'1 chapter of Ifaiah, feemeth no improper fubjeft whereon to employ our thoughts, at a time when the church is inforcing on us the duties of repentance and faith, by the fame argument which firft produced them in the heart of that illuftrious per- fon; namely, the unexampled forrows and fufferings of the Son of God for the fins of the world ; to the contemplation of which is dedicated the great and holy week upon which we this day enter; a week, fpent in fuch a manner by them of old time, as made it evident to every beholder, that thefe were " the " days in which the brideg...« less