The Pulpit Orator (Volume 5); Containing, for Each Sunday of the Year, Seven Elaborate Skeleton Sermons (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. Excerpt: ... TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST. Ep1stlej--Phil. Hi. 17; iv. 3. Be followers of me, brethren, and observe them who walk so as you have our model. For many walk, of whom I have told you often (and now tell you weeping) that they are enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame: who mind earthly things. But our conversation is in heaven: from whence also we wait for the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ, who will reform the body of our lowness, made like to the body of his glory, according to the operation whereby also he is able to subdue all things unto himself. Therefore, my dearly beloved brethren, and most desired, my joy and my crown: so stattd fast in the Lord, my most dearly beloved. I beg of Euodia, and I beseech Syntyche to be of one mind in the Lord. And I entreat thee, my sincere companion, help those women who have labored with me in the Gospel, with Clement and the rest of my fellow-laborers, whose names are in the book of life. 1. HOMILETIC SKETCH. ST. PAUL EXHORTS THE PHILIPPIANS TO IMITATE HIM, AND GIVES THEM SOME SPECIAL PRECEPTS. In the Epistle of this day, which, like that of last Sunday, is taken from the Epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians, the Apostle warns them against those false teachers who would unite the Christian religion with Judaism. He calls these false teachers enemies of the Cross of Christ, because they reject 'the principal and fundamental truth of Christianity--namely, that we owe our Redemption, salvation and eternal happiness to the death of Jesus on the Cross, and because they would not hear of self-denial, and the mortification of the flesh. They represented the Christian religion as only a sect of Judaism, which was tolerated in the Roman ...