Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmove. able, always abounding in the work of the Lord, 125 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is eut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and con- 141 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may I am the First and the Last: I am He that liveth and For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the work- If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on LECTURE XX. THE APOSTOLICAL BENEDICTION CONSIDERED WITH 2 CORINTHIANS xiii, 14. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, Page. you all. Amen. 243 PREFACE. Ir an apology be needed for the appearance of this book, the writer would desire to plead it in the words of " a true son" and pious confessor of the Church of England, whose unalterable allegiance to that Church it is his heart's desire, through good report and bad report, to imitate, and whose whole life was a consistent following out of the belief which he expressed in death, that our Holy Mother is "both in doctrine and worship agreeable to the Word of God, and in the most material points of both, conformable to the faith and practice of the godly Churches of Christ in the primitive and purer times." "Controversies, I confess," said Bishop Sanderson are necessary, the tongues necessary, Histories necessary, Philosophy and the arts necessary, other knowledge of all sorts necessary in the Church: for Truth must be maintained, Scripture-phrases opened, Heresie confuted, 1 See Bishop Sanderson's Will, in his Life by Izaak Walton. |