Eighteen Sermons Author:George Whitefield General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1809 Original Publisher: Printed by Thomas Dickman Subjects: Sermons, English Presbyterian Church Religion / Sermons / General Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christianity / Presbyterian Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has n... more »o illustrations and there 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: 13L mmmmmmmmmmlt , -, - SERiMON VIIL THE LORD OUR LIGHT. i Isaiah Ix. vet. 19, 2O. The sun shall be no more thy light by day, neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee, but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlast ng tight and thy God thy glory. Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself, for the Lord shall be thine o verlwting light, and the dayi of thy mourning shall be ended. UPON reading these words, I cannot help thinking of what the royal Psalmist said, Glorious things are spoken of t/iee, 0 city of God. A'elafi. I am afraid, my dear hearers, that even believers themselves, who have tasted of the grace of God, reflect not and meditate as they ought,' on the glorious and amazing felicity they are called by the Spirit of God to experience in this life. We content ourselves too much with our hopes, and if we attain to a good hope through grate, we are ready to think we have got up to the last step of the gospel ladder, and have nothing more to do but to rest in that hope, without ever attaining to an abiding, full assurance of faith. If we would examine the scriptures, and not chuse to bring them down to us, but beg of God to raise our hearts up to them, we shall find the believer is made partaker of the grace of life, as well as an iieirofit; the one is on earth, the other in heaven, and one is only a prelibation of the other. ThisMessed prophet Isaiah, spea...« less