Sermons on the First Lessons of the Sunday Morning Service from Septuagesima to Trinity Sunday - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829. Excerpt: ... SERMON XVIII. (whitsunday.) THE FEAST OF PENTECOST AND THE FESTIVAL SYSTEM OF THE JEWS. Deuteronomy, Chap. xvi. ver. 16. "Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the 'place which he sliall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles." The festival, my brethren, which our church calls on us this day to celebrate, is that which commemorates the miraculous effusion of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles, when on the day of Pentecost, with one accord, they were come together unto one placea. From Jerusalem they were commanded by their Master before his ascension "not to depart, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which they had heard of himb:"--that promise of the Comforter was as on this day fulfilled. They were to "tarry in the city of Jerusalem, until they should be endued with power from on highc;" and with that power, as on this day, were they invested. A more extended commission was now given them; Acts ii. 1. b Acts i. 4. c Luke xxiv. 49. for they were ordained "witnesses unto the Lord Jesus, both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the eartha." By the Holy Spirit were they qualified for the office; for he was to "teach them all things, and to bring all things to their remembrance, whatsoever their Master had told themb." He was to guide them into all truth; and when delivered up unto councils, and scourged in the synagogues, there was to be given them, by the Spirit of their Father which was to speak in them, what they should speakc. In the Second Lesson of the day we are told that unto the assembled Apostles as they were sitting "came suddenly a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and there appeared un...

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