Sermons Author:Jabez Bunting 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: II. THE FATHER'S ELECT SERVANT. PREACHED KEFORK THE WESLEYAN METHODIST CONFERENCE, LEEDS, AUGUST 4, 1846; AND ON SEVERAL MISSIONARY OCCASIONS. Behold My... more » Beet Ant, Whom I Uphold; Mine Elect, In Whom My Soul Delight- Eth; I Hate Pot My Spirit Upon Him: He Shall Bring) Forth Judgment To The Gentiles. Hb Sham. Not Cby, Nob Lift Up, Nor Cause His Voice To Be Heard Ik The Street. A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break, And The Smok- Djo Flax Shall He Not Quench: He Shall Bring Foeth Judgment Unto Tkuth. He Shall Not Fail Nor Be Discouraged, Till He Have Set Judgment IN THE EARTH : AND THE ISLES SHALL WAIT FOR HIS LAW.â??Igaiah xlii, 1-4. The words which have now been read to you belong to one of the most impressive portions of the prophetic Scriptures; and, happily, the proper interpretation of their import, and of the general subject to which they relate, is in no degree a matter of doubt or difficulty. They most unquestionably relate to the character and work of our Lord Jesus Christ. This might be argued with sufficient certainty from the internal evidence of the passage itself; but it is expressly affirmed, moreover, by an inspired expositor. The evangelist Matthew, in the twelfth chapter of his Gospel, quotes this prophecy at full length, and applies it to our Saviour. On the general subject of the text, therefore, it is only necessary to offer one preliminary remark before I proceed to a more minute examination of its statements: namely, that it is to be regarded as descriptive of the whole work and administration of the Messiah, including the commencement of it in his personal humiliations, labors, and sufferings while on earth; its progress and successive developments in subsequent ages of the Church, by the instrumentality of his ministers, and the institutions of the G...« less