At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven und earth, because thou hast hid these things All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son but the Father; neither knoweth any man All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 230 The Service of Christ easy and pleasant to bis People. Matth. xi. 30. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light SER MON 241 XIV. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain ; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain 266. No Access to God but by the Gospel of Christ. Micah vi. 6, 7, 8. Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the High God? Shall I come before him with burnt offer ings, with calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? 290 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also SERMON XIX. Guilt removed, aud Peace restored. Psalm li. 15. 301 O Lord, open thou my lips, and my mouth shall show forth thy praise SERMON XX. Of the Assurance of Faith. 1 John v. 19. And we know that we are of God 914 994 SIX DISCOURSES (OR SERMONS.) SERM ON I. On the Deceitfulness of the Heart. JER. xvii. 9, 10. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. T HE prophet Jeremiah had a hard task. He was appointed to inculcate unwelcome truths upon a vain insensible people. He had the grief to find, all his expostulations and warnings, his prayers and tears, had no other effect than to make them account him their enemy, and to draw reproach and persecution upon himself. He lived to see the accomplishment of his own predictions; to see the land of his nativity desolated, the city destroyed, the people almost extirpated, and the few who remained, transported into a distant country, to end their days in captivity. Those who have resolved, honestly and steadily, to declare the word of the Lord, have, in all ages, found a part of his trial: the message they have had to deliver has been disagreeable and disregarded. It is no hard matter to frame discourses B |