The Excepts of Our Lord; A Course of Sermons Delivered in the Cathedral of All Saints, Albany, on the Friday Evenings in Lent, 1884 (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. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... CONTENTS. SERMON I. PAGE "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God."--St. John, iii. 5 3 SERMON II. "Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish."--St. Luke, xiii. 5 27 SERMON III. "Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven."--St. Matt., xviii. 3 47 SERMON IV. 1 Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, ye have no life in you."--St. John, vi. 53 69 v "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God."--St. John, iii. 5. While Christ "will have all men to be saved," he has, in Scripture, uttered six remarkable sayings, which are unmistakable conditions of salvation. Each of these sayings, or conditional sentences of Our Blessed Lord, begins with the Greek equivalent of the English word except. I take for this evening's sermon, the first of these excepts--and have for my subject, "The means of Grace, without which God does not impart Life." By "life," I mean that higher spiritual life, without which the atmosphere of Heaven would be so rare that within it, a soul ignorant of the New Birth, would be suffocated, and die. It is Holy Baptism, of course, which Christ was teaching that proud ruler of the Jews, who came to Him by night, afraid of his own people; coming secretly with, perhaps, a fancy that Christ would be gratified by a secret visit from so great a man as himself. He, doubtless, expected some unusual notice to be taken of his visit, at least some point of controversy to be started upon which he might argue, and show his learning and clever skill in debate. But our Lord, turning his searching yet tender eyes upon the questioner, declares: Except a man be born again, he...