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- 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 XVI - NEW YEAR'S DAY
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 ii. 21.
And when eight days were accomplished, for the circumcising of the child, his name was called Jesus.
In reviewing those circumstances in the life of our Lord, which it is the custom of the Church to commemorate on the first day of every year, there are two observations which would seem to force themselves on our notice; the one personal and respecting Christ alone, the other of a more general character, and relating to the institution itself to which He thus, in great humility, became subject. The first is the apparent strangeness of the fact that at His earliest entrance into the world, the Son of God should be made liable to suffering; the other the authority and sanction which, from the analogy of the Jewish covenant, is afforded to the practice of the general Christian Church, in not denying baptism to persons of like tender years.
The first of these is a reflection of no inconsiderable importance, as it conduces, or should conduce, to our love and admiration of His goodness who, being throned above all created things, endured the elements of the world to save us; who, being born before all worlds, became for our sakes a suckling; whose entrance and exit into life were sprinkled alike with blood; and who, though Himself spotless and pure, thought it not unworthy of His nature or His character to fulfill even the most revolting forms of legal righteousness.
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- Sermons Preached in India , pp. 271 - 283Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1829