Primary Witness to the Truth of the Gospel; A Series of Discourses, Also a Charge on Modern Teaching on the Canon of the Old Testament
by Charles Wordsworth (9781150280252)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1892 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green Subjects: Sermons, English Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christianity / Denominations 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: What is that to thee ? Follow ihou Me 1 S. John xxi. 22. There are two main elements in the Eeligion of the Gospel which cannot but be obvious to the least attentive observer of its character and design. One is, the provision which it makes for the social qualities of our nature by the institution of a Community which it calls the Church -- a Community which knows no limits either of time or place; so that it offers to our sympathy a bond of union only less extensive than that of humanity itself. The other element is in the opposite extreme; viz. the distinct value which it teaches us to put upon every separate individual soul. And it is this latter element to which I would desire now to call your attention. And my object in doing so is to assist you, if I may, to withstand a temptation which no one, I think, can doubt is more thancommonly prevalent at the present time. Our interest is called out in so many directions, our curiosity is excited upon so many points, which bear more or less directly upon the being and the working, the welfare and advancement of the Religious Community itself, and still more of that portion of the Community to which we ourselves belong, that we are in imminent danger of forgetting, or undervaluing, that other object of concern, which, after all, must be allowed to occupy the first place in our regard -- viz. the part which each of us has to take for the salvation of his own soul. I am not, therefor...

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