Sermons, Experimental and Practical; An Offering to Home Missionaries

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.1867 Excerpt: ... heaven. There is a power in the love of God manifested in the gift of a Saviour, when duly apprehended and kept near to the heart, which turns into weakness all other means of overcoming the world, and of forming the soul meet for its heavenly inheritance. While you cherish a lively apprehension of this love, bringing it home to your thoughts and feelings by frequent meditation and prayer, you will be sensible of an influence within, operating to draw you nearer and nearer to God, to enlighten, animate and comfort you in the divine life, and make you fruitful in all the graces of the Christian character. You will have a freedom in coming to God, in all your times of need, and he will meet you with new supplies of grace in all your pilgrimage on earth, and finally raise you to dwell for ever in his presence in glory. SERMON VIII. Man's Capability Of Future Glory And Blessedness. 1. John 3: 2. Beloved, now are ire the sons of God; and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that when he shall appear we sfiall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. A Dark, impenetrable veil hangs over the future world, beyond which the unaided eye of man can not penetrate. But it hath pleased God, so far to lift up that veil as to give us some faint glimpses of that exceeding and eternal weight of glory, which he has purposed to bestow on his friends in the state beyond the grave. He has assured us that we are to exist in that state; exist for ever; and that he has provided for them that love him joys which eye hath not seen nor ear heard nor the heart of man conceived. But though enough is revealed to us of the future for all important, practical purposes: still it is but a little that we do know, or can know of that invisible state in which we are so soon t...