One Thing Needful. _Lent_: The Individuality of the
Soul--Life, the Season of Repentance--Bodily Suffering--Tears of
Christ at the Grave of Lazarus--Christ's Privations, a Meditation
for Christians--The Cross of Christ the Measure of the World. _Good
Friday_: The Crucifixion. _Easter Day_: Keeping Fast and Festival.
_Easter Tide_: Witnesses of the Resurrection--A Particular
Providence as revealed in the Gospel--Christ Manifested in
Remembrance--The Invisible World--Waiting for Christ. _Ascension_:
Warfare the Condition of Victory. _Sunday after Ascension_: Rising
with Christ. _Whitsun Day_: The Weapons of Saints. _Trinity
Sunday_: The Mysteriousness of Our Present Being. _Sundays after
Trinity_: Holiness Necessary for Future Blessedness--The Religious
Use of Excited Feelings--The Self-wise Inquirer--Scripture a Record
of Human Sorrow--The Danger of Riches--Obedience without Love, as
instanced in the Character of Balaam--Moral Consequences of Single
Sins--The Greatness and Littleness of Human Life--Moral Effects of
Communion with God--The Thought of God the Stay of the Soul--The
Power of the Will--The Gospel Palaces--Religion a Weariness to the
Natural Man--The World our Enemy--The Praise of Men--Religion
Pleasant to the Religious--Mental Prayer--Curiosity a Temptation to
Sin--Miracles no Remedy for Unbelief--Jeremiah, a Lesson for the
Disappointed--The Shepherd of our Souls--Doing Glory to God in
Pursuits of the World.
FIFTEEN SERMONS PREACHED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, between 1826
and 1843. Cr. 8vo. 3s. 6d.
CONTENTS.--The Philosophical Temper, first enjoined by the
Gospel--The Influence of Natural and Revealed Religion
respectively--Evangelical Sanctity the Perfection of Natural
Virtue--The Usurpations of Reason--Personal Influence, the Means of
Propagating the Truth--On Justice as a Principle of Divine
Governance--Contest between Faith and Sight--Human Responsibility,
as independent of Circumstances--Wilfulness, the Sin of Saul--Faith
and Reason, contrasted as Habits of Mind--The Nature of Faith in
Relation to Reason--Love, the Safeguard of Faith against
Superstition--Implicit and Explicit Reason--Wisdom, as contrasted
with Faith and with Bigotry--The Theory of Developments in
Religious Doctrine.
SERMONS BEARING UPON SUBJECTS OF THE
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