The Writings of the Late John M. Mason, D.D. Volume 2; Consisting of Sermons, Essays, and Miscellanies, Including Essays Already Published in the "Christian Magazine." (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. 1832 Excerpt: ...your heart. Know ye that the very angels of God can tell you, as the heirs of the kingdom, only by your walking as Christ also walked. It is the light of the divine image shining out in its brightness that renders your names visible in the catalogue of God's elect. Ponder much your obligations to the grace of the Lord Jesus, who loved you with an everlasting love--so loved you as to give himself an offering for you. The bitterness of Gethsemane and the anguish of Calvary, the rage of hell and the curse of God, could not shake his loving purpose, nor make him flinch from his resolution to save you. From the sentence of God's righteous la w and the danger of eternal death--from the filth and power of your depravity--the service, the communion, and the recompense of the devil--he hath called you to a rank above the angels, and to all the blessedness of the kingdom of God Vol. II. 26 Oh We will remember thy love more than wine, lb him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto his God and Father; to him, with all affections, be glory and honor, dominion and power, forever and ever, amen t WORKS THE FLESH AND SPIRIT DISTINGUISHED. SERMON V WORKS OP THE FLESH AND SPIRIT DISTINGUISHED. JOHN HI. 6. That which is born of the flesh is Flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. The doctrine of the new birth, which the prophet of the church has declared to be the original of all spiritual character, and all heavenly hope, and without which he has decided most peremptorily, a man cannot enter into the kingdom of God, sounds most uncouth in the ears of corrupted reason. It is so entirely out of the way of human wisdom--it contains a fact so utterly anomalous, or rather so repugnant to the known constit...