THIRD COURSE

OF

PRACTICAL SERMONS:

EXPRESSLY

ADAPTED TO BE READ IN FAMILIES.

BY THE

REV. HARVEY MARRIOTT,

RECTOR OF CLAVERTON,

AND CHAPLAIN TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE LORD KENYON.

LONDON:

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Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his

soul? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread

sackcloth and askes under him? Wilt thou call this a fast, and

an acceptable day to the Lord?

The Mercies of Redeeming Love.

Romans, v. 7, 8, 9.

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For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure

for a good man some would even dare to die. But God com-

mended his love towards us, in that, while we were yet sinners,

Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by

His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him .

The Mystery of Man's Redemption.

2 Corinthians, v. 19.

God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself.

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Christ Risen from the Dead.

1 Corinthians, xv. 20.

Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of

them that slept

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On the Ascension.

St. John, xiv. 2.

In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I

would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you 74

On the Divinity of the Holy Ghost.

1 Corinthians, ii. 10, 11.

The Spirit searcheth all things, yea, even the deep things of God.

For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of

man, which is in him! Even so the things of God knoweth no

man, but the spirit of God

On the Holy Trinity.

1 Corinthians, ii. 13, 14.

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Not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the

Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of

God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know

them, because they are spiritually discerned

On the Ministry of Holy Angels.

Hebrews, i. 14.

103

Are they are not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for

them who shall be heirs of salvation

On a Preparation for the Judgment.

Amos, iv. 12.

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Prepare to meet thy God

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The First Advent.

Galatians, iv. 4, 5.

When the fulness of time was come, God sent forth His Son, made

of a woman, made under the law, that we might receive the

adoption of sons.

The Word, or Son of God made very Man.

St. John, i. 14.

And the Word was made Flesh, and dwelt among us

On Receiving the Holy Sacrament Unworthily.

1 Corinthians, xi. 27, 28.

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162

Whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord un-

worthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But

let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and

drink of that cup

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On Original Sin.

Romans, v. 14.

Death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not

sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression

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On a Surrender of the Will to the Obedience of the Gospel.

Whosoever shall keep

he is guilty of all.

St. James, ii. 10, 11,

the whole law, and yet offend in one point,

For He that said, Do not commit adultery,

said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet

if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law

On the Unprofitableness of Sin.

Job, xxxiii, 27.

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1 have sinned and perverted that which was right, and it profited

me not

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