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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1855 Excerpt: ... SERMON XII. THE EMITI.E83 OP NATURAL VIRTUE. "But I know you, that ye hate not the love of God in you."--Job w T. 42. When it is said, in a former verse of the Gospel, that Jesus knew what was in man, we feel that it is a tribute of acknowledgment rendered to His superior insight into the secrecies of our constitution. It was not the mere faculty of perceiving what lay before Him, that was ascribed to Him by the Evangelist. It was the faculty of perceiving what lay disguised under a semblance, that would have imposed on the understanding of other men. It was the faculty of discerning. It was a discerning of the spirit, and that not through the transparency of such unequivocal symptoms, as brought its character clearly home to the view of the observer. But it was a discerning of the spirit, as it lay wrapt in what, to an ordinary spectator, was a thick and impenetrable hiding-place. It was a discovery there of the real posture and habitude of the soul. It was a searching of it out, through all the recesses of duplicity, winding and counterwinding in such a way, as to elude altogether the eye of common acquaintanceship. It was the assigning to it of one attribute, at the time when it wore the guise of another attribute; of utter antipathy to the nature and design of His mission, at the very time that multitudes were drawn around Him by the fame of His miracles; of utter indifference about God, at the very time that they zealously asserted the sanctity of His Sabbaths, and resented, as blasphemous, whatever they felt to be a usurpation of the greatness which belonged to Him only. It was in the exercise of this faculty that Jesus came forward with the utterance of our text. The Jews, by whom He was surrounded, had charged Him with the guilt of profanation, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1855 Excerpt: ... SERMON XII. THE EMITI.E83 OP NATURAL VIRTUE. "But I know you, that ye hate not the love of God in you."--Job w T. 42. When it is said, in a former verse of the Gospel, that Jesus knew what was in man, we feel that it is a tribute of acknowledgment rendered to His superior insight into the secrecies of our constitution. It was not the mere faculty of perceiving what lay before Him, that was ascribed to Him by the Evangelist. It was the faculty of perceiving what lay disguised under a semblance, that would have imposed on the understanding of other men. It was the faculty of discerning. It was a discerning of the spirit, and that not through the transparency of such unequivocal symptoms, as brought its character clearly home to the view of the observer. But it was a discerning of the spirit, as it lay wrapt in what, to an ordinary spectator, was a thick and impenetrable hiding-place. It was a discovery there of the real posture and habitude of the soul. It was a searching of it out, through all the recesses of duplicity, winding and counterwinding in such a way, as to elude altogether the eye of common acquaintanceship. It was the assigning to it of one attribute, at the time when it wore the guise of another attribute; of utter antipathy to the nature and design of His mission, at the very time that multitudes were drawn around Him by the fame of His miracles; of utter indifference about God, at the very time that they zealously asserted the sanctity of His Sabbaths, and resented, as blasphemous, whatever they felt to be a usurpation of the greatness which belonged to Him only. It was in the exercise of this faculty that Jesus came forward with the utterance of our text. The Jews, by whom He was surrounded, had charged Him with the guilt of profanation, and ...
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