Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- THE VALEDICTORY ADDRESS
- A CHARGE
- SERMON I PREACHING OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
- SERMON II OFFICE OF CHRIST
- SERMON III CHARACTER OF CHRIST AND HIS RELIGION
- SERMON IV CHRIST PREACHING TO SINNERS
- SERMON V THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL
- SERMON VI THE CHRISTIAN'S FAITH AND FEAR
- SERMON VII THE CHRISTIAN'S TREATMENT ON EARTH
- SERMON VIII THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN
- SERMON IX THE GOOD SAMARITAN
- SERMON X LABOURERS IN THE VINEYARD
- SERMON XI THE CONVERSION OF THE HEATHEN
- SERMON XII THE OMNIPRESENCE OF GOD
- SERMON XIII SIN AND GRACE
- SERMON XIV ON THE LOVE OF GOD
- SERMON XV CHRISTMAS DAY
- SERMON XVI NEW YEAR'S DAY
- SERMON XVII EASTER DAY
- ADDRESS ON CONFIRMATION
SERMON VIII - THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- THE VALEDICTORY ADDRESS
- A CHARGE
- SERMON I PREACHING OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
- SERMON II OFFICE OF CHRIST
- SERMON III CHARACTER OF CHRIST AND HIS RELIGION
- SERMON IV CHRIST PREACHING TO SINNERS
- SERMON V THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL
- SERMON VI THE CHRISTIAN'S FAITH AND FEAR
- SERMON VII THE CHRISTIAN'S TREATMENT ON EARTH
- SERMON VIII THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN
- SERMON IX THE GOOD SAMARITAN
- SERMON X LABOURERS IN THE VINEYARD
- SERMON XI THE CONVERSION OF THE HEATHEN
- SERMON XII THE OMNIPRESENCE OF GOD
- SERMON XIII SIN AND GRACE
- SERMON XIV ON THE LOVE OF GOD
- SERMON XV CHRISTMAS DAY
- SERMON XVI NEW YEAR'S DAY
- SERMON XVII EASTER DAY
- ADDRESS ON CONFIRMATION
Summary
St. Luke xviii. 14.
I tell you that this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: For every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
The parable of which these words form the conclusion, was spoken by our Saviour, as the Holy Scripture itself tells us, in reproof of certain persons who “trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others;” and of the persons, accordingly, whom He sets before us, the first is of a class of men who, more than all others among the Jews, enjoyed the reputation of a strict and scrupulous piety; while the second was from a description of persons, many of whom were, really, of depraved and infamous behaviour, and all of whom, from the prejudices of their countrymen, were regarded, whether justly so or no, as depraved and infamous. “Two men,” are our Lord's words, “went up into the temple to pray; the one a pharisee, and the other a publican.”
The pharisees, it may be here necessary to observe, were a party among the Jewish nation whose name is taken from a Hebrew word signifying division or separation, because they had divided themselves in many circumstances of dress and manners and society from the generality of their brother Israelites, and of those who worshipped the same God with them in the same temple, on pretence of superior holiness, and of keeping themselves altogether unspotted by the company, the amusements, and even the touch of carnal and worldly persons.
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- Sermons Preached in India , pp. 137 - 150Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1829