Parochial Sermons, Preached in the Parish Church of Heversham, Westmoreland
by Robert Wilson Evans (9781150116445)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1845 Original Publisher: Rivington Subjects: Religion / Sermons / Christian Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SERMON V. THE SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION. (Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity.) Luke vii. 14. " And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise." What an example is here of the gracious loving-kindness of the Redeemer of the world what a glorious earnest of the putting forth of his power at the last day by the resurrection of the dead To the poor weeping widow He restores her last and lost worldly hope and comfort, in her revived son, her only child. To all beholders He manifests the stupendous spectacle of the dead returning to life, not through the power of prayer to God, as of Elijah's before Him, and of Peter's after Him, but by power of very command as very God, the Son of God. " Young man, I say unto thee, Arise." As He said also on another occasion, " Damsel, I say unto thee, Arise." And as at the last day He will say, " Return, ye children of men." Let me endeavour to improve the blessed occasion of our having this remarkable work of our Lord brought so conspicuously before our notice, and offered so directly to our attention on this day. Observe the circumstances mentioned in the text. Jesus touched the bier. Why was this ? Our Lord almost invariably accompanies his miracles with some sign, proper to the occasion. So here He touches the bier, as if He would say, " Bearers stop there is no need of your going further on to the grave. For you shall not be bearing a dead corpse a moment longer. The man shall return to the city of the living together wit...

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