Sermons on special occasions Author:John Harris 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: SERMON VI. THE SECOND ADAM THE LORD FROM HEAVEN. 1 Cor. Xt. 43-47—"And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam a lifc-gi... more »ving Spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, hut that whieh is natural; and afterward that whieh is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy; the seeond man is the Lord frum heaven." Two men have trod the earth—two real historical men. Before the first of them died, his posterity had multiplied to thousands—myriads; but what are they all to us compared to that "first man?" Since then, millions have succeeded in every age; but what are they all to us compared to that "second man ?" The first man himself is as nothing compared with the second—acquires all his real importance from his relation to the second. I look at the first, and I see him made a living soul. I loo1.? at the second, and I behold Him making, creating, as a lifc-imp:irting Spirit. I look at the first, and I sec everything around him withering, dying—all his posterity falling into the dust . I look at the second, and behold, He is standing at the great grave of humanity, and the dead are starting into life around Him. " The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven." Now, in enlarging on the peculiar view which is here presented of our Lord as "the second man, from heaven," it is proper to advert, first, to His relations to the first man, orto the necessity which arose for His coming. And here I need not remind you at any length of the importance attached by the Almighty to the introduction upon the earth of the first man. Imagine an analogous case; imagine that one of the planets on which, in the stillness of evening, your eye has often rested, and which, for untold ages, has been pursuing its sile...« less