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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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