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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 V. EQUANIMITY. (christmas.) Phil. iv. 4. Rejoice in the Lord alway, and again I say, Rejoice. TN other parts of Scripture the prospect of Christ's coming is made a reason for solemn fear and awe, and a call for watching and prayer, but in the verses connected with the text a distinct view of tlre Christian character is set before us, and distinct duties urged on us. The Lord is at hand, and what then ? -- why, if so, we must rejoice in the Lord; we must be conspicuous for moderation; we must be careful for nothing; we must seek from God's bounty, and not from man, whatever we need; we must abound in thanksgiving; and we must cherish, or rather we must pray for, and we shall receive from above, the peace of God which passeth all understanding, to keep our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Now this is a view of the Christian character definite and complete enough to admit of commenting on, -- andit may be useful to show that the thought of Christ's coming not only leads to fear, but to a calm and cheerful frame of mind. Nothing perhaps is more remarkable than that an Apostle, -- a man of toil and blood, a man combating with powers unseen, and a spectacle for men and Angels, and much more that St. Paul, a man whose natural temper was so zealous, so severe, and so vehement, -- I say, nothing is more striking and signi ficant than that St. Paul should have given us this view of what a Christian should be. It would be nothing wonderful, it is nothing wonderful, that writers in a day like this should speak of peace, quiet, sobriety, and cheerfulness, as being the tone of mind that becomes a Christian; but considering that St. Paul was by birth a Jew, and by education a Pharisee, that he wrote at a time when, if at any t...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217739788 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217739784 |
| Weight | 0.78 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.54 In |
| List Price | $21.33 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 238 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-09-01 |
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