Jesus the Giver and the Fulfiller of the New Law

Jesus the Giver and the Fulfiller of the New Law

Author: Alexander Watson

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing

Published: 2008-10

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9781437058666

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Jesus the Giver and the Fulfiller of the New Law, 8 Sermons on the Beatitudes

Jesus the Giver and the Fulfiller of the New Law, 8 Sermons on the Beatitudes

Author: Alexander Watson

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781230369211

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... SERMON VIII. THE VISION OF GOD THE HERITAGE OF PURENESS. St. Matthew V. 8. "Blessed Are The Pure In Heart, For They Shall See God." We have now passed, dearly beloved, as it were, from under the dark shadow of the Cross, and are already in the brightness of that light which streams from the risen Body of our glorified Lord. A lighter and a more joyous atmosphere seems to be about us. Our thoughts have been of suffering and of mourning; of anguish and of woe; our discipline has been a faint and feeble following of the Man of Sorrows. But lo! His travail is over. Jesus Christ is risen to-day. 'Tis our triumphant holy day. He is no longer crucified, dead, and buried;--but is risen. Voices speak from His tomb, " He is not here, He is risen." Yea, He is alive for evermore, and we may no longer finger amid the trials of His Gethsemane, the horrors of His Calvary, or the silent gloom of His tomb made in the hewn rock. No, we have journeyed with Him in all the times and tokens of His humiliation; we have accompanied Him from Bethlehem to Calvary; we have seen in the Child born amid the discomforts of a stranger's temporary home, the image of a man crucified in the midst of shame and obloquy, and now it is permitted us to connect the Conception and the Resurrection, to trace one unmingled course of Purity from the Annunciation which foretold a Birth, to the salutation which proclaimed a victory over Death. Nor will our theme be found to fail us. The Beatitude we consider to-day is every way as suited to Paschal joy, as those that have gone before have harmonized with Passion-tide. We have disturbed from the sacred order of their original progression, the measured dependence of these benedictions, but we have not, as we trust, done violence to the...