The Gospel in Various Aspects, 7 Lects
by William Landels (9781458917591)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IV. THE SIX OF THE WORLD PUT AWAY BY CHRIST. " The sting of death is sin."?1 Cob. xv. 56. " But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all."?Isaiah v. 3, 5, 6. " For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God."?1 Pet. iii. 18. " Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world."?John i. 29. " But now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put awav sin bv the sacrifice of himself."?Heb. ix. 26. " Jesus said, It is finished; and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost."?John six. 30. To some of you, sin is the plague of life as well as "the sting of death." The consciousness of guilt mars the enjoyment of the present, and darkens the prospect of the future. The unhappiness which you feel is not attributable to anything in your outward condition. I know not what that is. It may be, that your temporal circumstances and social position are such, that, in this respect, you could scarcely bs more favourably situated?having sources of comfort and reasons for thankfulness beyond most men, so that, looking only at that which is outward, men say of you, " How happy they might be "?wanting nothing, in fact, to render you happy, were your mental state in harmony with your outward circumstances. But, though you may be thus favourably situated externally, I know that you are not happy, because the consciousness that all is not right between you and God, a sense of unpreparedness for that meeting with God which you anticipate, embitters every half-hour ...

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