Scripture difficulties, 4 sermons preached before the University of Cambridge in April 1853, at th lecture founded by J. Hulse: to which is added, A sermon preached before the University on Ascension-day, 1852

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Page 170 - For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it...
Page 100 - Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon ; and thou, moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Page 80 - How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; 4.
Page 185 - Is it not written in your law, ' I " ' said, Ye are gods ? ' " If he called them gods, unto " whom, the word of God, came, — and the Scripture, cannot " be broken ; — s6 say ye of him, whom the Father, hath " sanctified, and sent into the world, ' Thou blasphemest ; ' " because, I said, I am the Son of God ? 37 If I do not the " works of my Father, believe me not.
Page 100 - And humbly we beseech thee to grant, that he, being dead unto sin, and living unto righteousness, and being buried with Christ in his death, may crucify the old man, and utterly abolish the whole body of sin...
Page 151 - This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High." I will remember the works of the Lord : surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
Page 77 - If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Page 100 - Baptism doth represent unto us our profession ; which is, to follow the example of our Saviour Christ, and to be made like unto him ; that, as he died, and rose again for us, so should we, who are baptized, die from sin, and rise again unto righteousness; continually mortifying all our evil and corrupt affections, and daily proceeding in all virtue and godliness of living.

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