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The Works of John Donne (v. 4); With a Memoir of His Life
The Works of John Donne With a Memoir of His Life - v. 4 Author:Henry Alford Volume: v. 4 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1839 Original Publisher: Parker Subjects: Sermons, English History / General Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Sermons / Christian Notes: This is a black and white OCR r... more »eprint 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 from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 102 SERMON LXXXVII. PREACHED AT A CHRISTENING. Galatians iii. 27. For all ye that are baptized into Christ, have pat on Christ. This text is a reason of a reason; an argument of an argument; the proposition undertaken by the apostle to prove, is, That after faith is come, tee are no longer under the schoolmaster1, the law. The reason, by which he proves that, is: For ye are all the sons of God by faith, in Christ Jesus; and then the reason of that, is this text, For all ye that are baptized into Christ, have put on Chrut. Here then is the progress of a sanctified man, and here is his standing house; here is his journey, and his lodging; his way, and his end. The house, the lodging, the end of all is faith; for whatsoever is not of faith, is sin. To bo sure that you are in the right way to that, you must find yourselves to be the sous of God; and you can prove that by no other way to yourselves, but because you are baptized into Christ. So that our happiness is now at that height, and so much are wo preferred before the Jews, that whereas the chiefest happiness of the Jews was to have the law, (for without the law they could not haw known sin, and the law was their schoolmaster to find out Christ) we are admitted to that degree of perfection, that we are got above the law; it was their happiness to have had the law, but it is ours, not to need it: they had the benefit of a g...« less