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Sermons Preached in the Chapel of St. David's College, Lampeter
Sermons Preached in the Chapel of St David's College Lampeter Author:Alfred Ollivant General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1831 Original Publisher: s.n. 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 fro... more »m more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SERMON II. John v. 9. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. When we examine the works of nature, and trace the various marks of design that are impressed upon them, in order to deduce the proof of the existence of one supreme and intelligent Creator, there is scarcely any consideration that affects us more strikingly than the correspondence and mutual relation of their several parts. We see, for instance, that the eye is adapted to receive the light, and the light so formed as to paint the required image upon the eye, and while these objects, independently considered, would each have been sufficient to prove that they were the work of a Divine artificer, we are forced, by the comparison, to conclude, that it is one and the same Almighty power and wisdom, that has called them both into being. In like manner, when we extend our enquiries from natural to revealed religion, and examine the various proofs of the Divine authority of the Christian faith, there are few points so well calculated either to persuade the judgment or affect the heart, as the perfect adaptation of the Gospel to the circumstances of man. Professing, as it does, to be a message from heaven, sent down for the special purpose of promoting our happiness, it is evident that it needed such a fitness to qualify it, on the one hand, for the end designed, and to entitle it, on the other, to our submission and respect. Had it proposed to us benefits of which we were not in want, or offered them in a manner inconsistent with our moral condition, the presumption would have been great that it...« less