Sacred Classics, or, Cabinet Library of Divinity
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ISBN13: 9780217549066
Paperback|9780217549066
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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. CHRIST THE FIRST FRUITS. BY BISHOP BEVERIDGE. ': M Am Beveridor was bom in 1637= in 1704 he was consecrated Bisbop of St. Asapb, and died in 1708.] SERMON V. 1 Corinthians/ xv. 20. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept. When we seriously consider how much the Son of God suffered for our sins, we cannot but be highly concerned, and troubled at the remembrance of those sins for which so great a Person suffered; for certainly it was the greatest demonstration that ever was or could be given, of the divine displeasure against the sins of mankind, that no less a person than the Son of God himself was able to expiate them, nor he by any less means than his own blood. The consideration whereof, should not only deter us from the commission of sin hereafter, but it should make us loathe and abhor ourselves for those which we have committed heretofore. What grief, what horror should seize upon our spirits every time that we consider how the eternal Son of God, the only begotten of the Father, was affronted, was abused, was spit upon, was arraigned, was condemned, was crucified, was put to death, to the painful, to the shameful, to the cursed death upon the cross, and all for those very sins, which we, ungrateful wretches that we are, have lived and delighted in Methinks the remembrance of it should make us blush and itsli;uni: (l of ourselves, and never think that we can grieve enough for those sins, for which Christ himself not only grieved, but died. But lest this consideration duly weighed, should lie so heavy upon our spirits, as by degrees to sink them down into despair, we must consider withal, that as the remembrance of Christ's suffering for our sins affords us great matter for grief and sorrow, so t...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217549066 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217549063 |
| Weight | 0.52 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.35 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 152 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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