PREFACE TO THE NEW AND CHEAPER HE THE EDITION (As prepared by the Author in 1889.) two volumes of these Sermons in preceding editions, are now, by the employment of a smaller type, fused into one, but, it is hoped, without any such loss of distinctness as would counterbalance the advantage of a reduced cost. 3, AMEN COURT, E.C., Advent, 1889. PREFACE THESE wishes of many persons to whom from time to time they have been useful. As here arranged, they can make very little pretence to system; and, from the nature of the case, they often repeat each other, in substance if not in words. Some of them, however, are bound up with the formation or recovery of religious convictions in a manner and degree which exert a first claim on the author's consideration; and this has made him unwilling to omit passages, or even entire discourses, which a true literary judgment would have proscribed. It ought perhaps to be added that the 35th Sermon was preached in St. Paul's, at the invitation of the late Dean Milman, and at a date when the preacher had not become a member of the Chapter. If this volume should prove to be at all generally acceptable, the author might hereafter publish other Sermons preached during his Residences at St. Paul's since February, 1870, in the months of August and December. Of these, the latter would relate, for the most part, to our Lord's First and Second Coming. The former would deal with a wider range of subjects, although generally such as are suggested, however incidentally, by the Services of the Church. 3, AMEN COURT, ST. PAUL'S, St. James's Day, 1885. CONTENTS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE RESURRECTION. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto CHRISTIANITY WITHOUT THE RESURRECTION. If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is CHRISTIANITY WITHOUT THE RESURRECTION. If Christ be not risen. then is our preaching vain, and your faith is PAGE Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that He should be holden of it.—Acts ii. 24 THE REALITY OF THE RESURRECTION. Behold My Hands and My Feet, that it is I Myself: handle Me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see Me have.- THE LIVING NOT AMONG THE DEAD. Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen.— |