+ REVELATION vii. 9, 10.-After this I beheld, and lo! a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes and palms in their hands and cried with REVELATION iv. 11.-Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive SERMONS EXPLANATORY OF THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS. ROMANS V. 7, 8.-For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die; but God commendeth His love to- ROMANS Viii. 9.-But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you; 485 ROMANS xii. 1.-I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a ROMANS Xiii. 7.-Render, therefore, to all their dues; SERMON I THE CREATION. GENESIS i. 31. And God saw every thing that he had made, and behold it was very good. THE order of the Proper Lessons for the Sunday service, throughout the year, may be said to begin from this day. On this day we, as it were, begin the Bible, and the first lessons continue to be taken from the books of the Law and the Prophets successively, till we come again to the season of Advent; those for Advent and the Sundays after Epiphany being taken, for particular reasons, from the book of Isaiah alone. Now it is impossible that so small a portion of the Old Testament, as can be read at the rate of two chapters a week, can give us any thing like a full notion of its contents: indeed, there are several books from which none of the Sunday B |
