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Sermons on the Privileges, Responsibilities, and Duties of Members of the Gospel Covenant; Septuagesima, Lent, Passion Week
Sermons on the Privileges Responsibilities and Duties of Members of the Gospel Covenant Septuagesima Lent Passion Week Author:Thomas Bowdler General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1846 Original Publisher: Thomas Bowdler Sharpe Subjects: Sermons, English Church year sermons Religion / Sermons / General Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christian Ministry / Preaching Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no... more » 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: 91 SERMON VI. Abel's Sacrifice. Heb. xi. 4. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts ; and by it he, being dead, yet speaketh. The early history of the world presents many circumstances, which may be regarded as significant of what has taken place in after times ; showing a perfect harmony in all the dealings of God towards his creatures. He, foreseeing and ordaining all things from the beginning, " preached before the Gospel," as the apostle writes in one place; that is, announced to the fathers of old the glad tidings of salvation which were to be fulfilled in their season. The leading facts of Gospel history, and the truths of Gospel doctrine, were taught under type and shadow; and the patriarchal age may be regarded as, in some degree, a sketch of the events more fully displayed to succeeding generations. The state of our first parent, when banished from paradise, and deprived of the fruit of the tree of life, is a representation of the unhappy condition of allhis posterity in their natural state of alienation from God. The marked distinction which soon took place between the descendants of Adam's two sons, is similar to that which has ever since prevailed between " the children of God, and the children of the wicked one;" as indeed we are almost expressly taught by St. John, in thus speaking of...« less