Horae Homileticae Volume 16; In Twenty-One Volumes. 1 & 2 Corinthians (Paperback)

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. 1833 edition. Excerpt: ...to give a general view of the subject; and that those which follow are the particulars comprehended under it. The suffering patiently all kinds of evil, and doing cheerfully all kinds of good, are the constituent parts of true charity: and these are expressed by those two words, " Charity suffereth long, and is kind: " and St. Paul elsewhere sums up the whole of charity in these two things; "Be not overcome of evil; but overcome evil with good." In fact, it is by these two terms that charity is depicted as existing and operating in the bosom of God himself: "Despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?" Here the words "goodness and longsuffering" are, in the original, the very same with those in the beginning of our text, " Charity suffereth Rom. xii. 21. long, and is kind: " from whence we may see that charity in us is of the same nature with charity in God; or, in other words, that it is a conformity of heart to God, whose name and character is love. It is yet further observable, that there is, in the original, a marked difference between the mode in which the general view of the subject is stated, and the particular parts of it are enumerated; there being no copulative to connect the verbs. This distinction is marked also very properly in our translation; the copulative " and" being put in italics, to shew that it is not to be found in the original. This view of the text removes all appearances of tautology, and opens an easy way for the discussion of it. Descending thus to the consideration of the different particulars, we notice, that there is a marked difference also in the statement of ...