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Miscellaneous Sermons by Clergymen of the Church of England, Ed. by F.g. Lee
Miscellaneous Sermons by Clergymen of the Church of England Ed by Fg Lee Author:Frederick George Lee General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1860 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 you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: SEKMON III. NAKEDNESS. Gen. m. 11. "WHO TOLD THEE THAT THOU WAST NAKED?" How can the preacher speak worthily of the Paradise of God ? Human lips cannot do so. And unworthily also must one whose foot has only trodden this fallen and accursed earth speak of " the garden which the Loan God planted eastward in Eden, in which He put the man whom He had formed." How shall we speak of the First Great Marriage, at which He, Who blessed the marriage feast at Cana of Galilee by His Divine presence and first miracle, He, the Lord God, deigned to act as Priest, when He brought Eve unto the man ? Those who in holy matrimony have " called Jesus to their marriage," who have wedded with the blessing of Holy Church, who have the pure mind and the unselfish heart, whose deep affection will not shrink from His eye, Who loves us with a love " passing the love of women," -- they, and only they, have glimpses of the happiness of man and wife before the Fall. That Fall, alas! soon took place. In the midst of the garden of Eden the Lord God made to grow two trees, the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. I. The Tree of Life had a sacramental virtue in it: it conveyed immortal life, and was also a symbol of it. As the other fruits of the garden had a natural use, namely, the support of the bodies of our first parents, so the fruit of this tree was supernatural, and contained the gift (as I said) of immortal life. This Tree of Life, like the other trees of the garden, was originally intended for the food of man, and had he not fallen he would have " lived for ever," supported by the fruit of the...« less