LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. Landy Miss, King Street Mabson Miss, Yarmouth Marsh Mrs. S. Yarmouth, 3 copies Martin Mrs. St. Stephen's Martin Mrs. Sprowston Middleton Mr. St. Stephen's Money Miss, Yarmouth Moody Miss, Yarmouth Moore Mr. Chas. Yarmouth Nairn Mrs. Cranbrook, Kent Nares Rev. Dr. Biddenden, Kent Nevill, The Lord Viscount, 3 copies Nevill Rev. H. W. Bergh Apton Neville Mrs. Yarmouth Newton Edmund, Esq. Surry Street, 2 copies Norgate Mr. St. Stephen's Norris Charles, Esq. Mulbarton, 2 copies Norris James, Esq. Debenham, Suffolk Norwich Clerical Society Ottaway W. N. Esq. Staplehurst, Kent Oxley Mrs. J. P. Crescent Page Mr. Gentlemen's Walk XV Palmer A. Esq. Yarmouth Palmer Mrs. S. Sen. Yarmouth Palmer Mrs. S. Jun. Yarmouth Palmer J. D. Esq. Mayor of Yarmouth Parlour Mrs. London Street Parson John, Esq. Yarmouth Peirson Mrs, at Rev. J. Bolton's Surrey Street Pellew Hon. and Rev. E. Yarmouth, 2 copies Penrice Mrs. Yarmouth Pilgrim Mr. Theatre Street Preston John, Esq. Yarmouth Preston E. Esq. Yarmouth Preston Isaac, Esq. Yarmouth Preston Miss, M. Yarmouth Preston Isaac, Jun. Esq. Yarmouth Preston Mrs. Isaac, Yarmouth Pretyman H. Esq. ditto Rackham W. Esq. St. Giles' Reeve Mrs. Lowestoft Reynolds Mrs. Yarmouth SERMON I. 1 Cor. xv, 56, 57. The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. THE chapter from which my text is taken, is one which no Christian can peruse without feelings of the deepest emotion and the purest comfort. The great apostle of the Gentiles seems therein to have been blessed with the fullest inspiration of divine grace, to have exceeded his own wonted powers of eloquence, and to have spoken of the glorious theme of a future resurrection, in language worthy of a subject so exalted. His immediate object in treating of this most solemn topic, was to refute some heretical opinions, which had, even in those early times, crept into the Corinthian church, and endangered its internal peace by the divisions to which they gave B rise. These false notions appear to have been of two kinds, the one relating particularly to the Jewish, and the other to the Gentile converts. Several of the former, having been of the sect of the Sadducees, still retained a portion of their old leaven of error and falsehood, and denied, or at least doubted, the resurrection from the dead. The Gentiles on the other hand, having imbibed the spirit of curious and useless discussion, so common amongst the philosophers of their own age and country, although they did not dispute the fact of a resurrection, yet perplexed themselves with vain and subtle disquisitions on the manner in which the body was to be raised up at the last day. The apostle, in the first thirtyfour verses of this chapter, replies to the fallacies of these contending parties, by arguments drawn from the resurrrection of Jesus Christ. dresses himself first to the Sadducean cavillers, and proves to them that the dead shall rise, because Jesus Christ, "who was made in all things like as we are, sin only excepted," was raised up, and had "become the first fruits of them that slept;" and he then shews how every religious obligation depends upon this most important truth. "If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain." He ad He proceeds, in the 35th and following verses, to refute those Gentile errors, which had origi |