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...

Sermons on the Beatitudes
Sermons on the Beatitudes

Author: John Calvin

Publisher: Banner of Truth

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9780851519340

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Among the many activities which claimed Calvin's attention during his long ministry in Geneva (1536-1538; 1541-1564), preaching was the most public and perhaps the most influential. Public because, for many years, twice on Sundays and daily in alternate weeks, the Reformer stood before a congregation of townsfolk, refugees and visitors to teach, warn, appeal, counsel, admonish, and encourage. Influential because, vital as the Institutes, commentaries and treatises were to the defence and propagation of Christian doctrine, it was the Word preached and applied from the pulpit which above all fashioned Geneva's evangelical culture and made it the nerve-centre of Reformed Protestantism. This volume presents readers with a short series of sermons on the Beatitudes, translated for the first time into English by Robert White. They comprise Calvin's exposition of Matthew 5:1-12, Mark 3:13-19 and Luke 6:12-26. Five sermons were preached on the Beatitudes in the course of an extended treatment of the Synoptic Gospels. Begun in July 1559, this series had still not been completed by February 1564, when ill health forced the Reformer's retirement from the pulpit. His absence was to be permanent: he died three months later, in May 1564. The late date of these sermons, therefore, marks them out as a definitive example of the Reformer's mature pulpit style. They represent his very last effort to elucidate a New Testament text in the context of regular public worship. Translated into a modern idiom, this book will transport the reader back into sixteenth-century Geneva, where he can hear the Reformer preach on issues of perennial Christian concern.