A New Uniform Edition of the Works of the REV. Robert Hawker, Revised by the Author

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1826 Excerpt: ... 187 SERMON VIII. MaTTHEW XXII. 42. What think ye of Chrutf If the importance of the subject to which I have of late so frequently requested your attention, did not supersede every other consideration, I should have thought it necessary to have prefaced several of the preceding discourses with an apology. But though I feel great apprehension, lest, from the very defective manner in which the subject hath been treated, I should have failed in my endeavours to exhibit the proofs of our Lord's Godhead in that strong point of view which may be requisite for the establishment of perfect conviction in your minds; (and which I cannot but think, would be the sure consequence arising from the evidences themselves, if taught of God;) yet I persuade myself that the humblest efforts in such an interesting cause, will need no recommendation with all sincere minds. To have a just and proper conception of his person and character, who is the Author and Finisher of our faith, cannot but be desirable and gratifying to all his followers. Nor is this the only object to be answered by it. The great question of our Lord's Godhead certainly involves the highest concerns of Christianity. Whoever wishes to derive comfort and assurance from the promises of the Gospel, and especially in the more interesting parts of it, which relate to the future prospects of our nature, must first be convinced of the truth of that authority on which the whole rests, that He is faithful who has promised, (Heb. x. 23.) Neither do I conceive it possible that any man can experience the full extent of the consolations which the religion of Jesus affords, who hath not imbibed a portion of the same faith which actuated the apostle Paul: I know (says he) whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he...