Plain Parochial Sermons
by Daniel Parsons (9781150047268)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1838 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 III. THE SURE FOUNDATION. S. Matthew vii. 24 -- 27. Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of Mine and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came and the winds blew, and beat upon that house: and it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock: And every one that heareth these sayings of Mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house; and great was the fall of it. These are the words with which our blessed Lord concluded his teaching, which we commonly call " the Sermon on the Mount," and are evidently to be taken by us as a summing up of the intention of all that had gone before, namely, that it was the practice of Christian morals, not the exclaiming of Lord Lord ? and other professions in words alone. In a very familiar parable He places before our eyes the situations of the two sorts of people who are found in the world, namely, the hearers who are also doers, and the hearers who are not doers: familiar, I say, because the meaning is so plain as to require no explanation: no one reading this parable can doubt of the persons of whom it is spoken. I. What then is hearing, and how do we who now live hear. To be taught Christianity is now the same thing to us, that to hear Christ was to the Jews then. All of us therefore are hearers; we have been born in a land which has been Christian for centuries of years, nay, as some have thought, a land in which S. Paul him...

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