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Sermons and Addresses Delivered on Special Occasions
Sermons and Addresses Delivered on Special Occasions Author:John Harris General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1858 Original Publisher: Gould and Lincoln Subjects: Congregational churches Sermons, English Religion / Sermons / General Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christianity / United Church of Christ (Congregational) Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint o... more »f 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 books for free. Excerpt: SERMON VI. THE INTERCESSION OF CHRIST. 1 JOHN ii. 1. -- " My little children, these tilings write I unto you that ye sin not; and if any man sin we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." This is temple-language, derived from the act of the High Priest on the great day of atonement. On that day the entire economy was summed up within the veil. He who had not been present at that intercessory scene had not seen the heart of the Jewish -dispensation. We too have an Advocate with the Father ; and in His advocacy, within the heavenly veil, the Christian economy, as a system of mediation, reaches its loftiest point. But why is this advocacy here referred to? A man is supposed to have sinned; a fact which loses none of its tremendous significance by its frequency; a fact which, familiar as it may be to us, can never become ordinary or indifferent to the government of God; -- every sin having all the freshness and enormity of a first sin to it -- a sin containing a possible universe of evil. But here is a sin of peculiar turpitude. " There is, indeed, a sin unto death " (says the apostle), including, I suppose, the rejection of atonement, intercession, Christianity itself. And the sin before us is supposed to be only one step short of that; yet even for this there is mercy. Here is guilt so great that it is made hypothetical, yet confronted by an actual provision of ...« less