A Feast for Serpents: Being the substance of a sermon, preached at the Obelisk Chapel, on Sunday evening, March 21, 1813 — John Shaqi
A Feast for Serpents: Being the substance of a sermon, preached at the Obelisk Chapel, on Sunday evening, March 21, 1813Church, J. (John)
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A Feast for Serpents: Being the substance of a sermon, preached at the Obelisk Chapel, on Sunday evening, March 21, 1813
Church, J. (John)
Sermons, English -- 19th century
and his dear people, that he laid down at the feet of the Lamb of God.
He fed with the Lambs in the same fold, and he was brought to feed them
afterwards. Thus the Wolf and the Lamb fed together; and is not this
true to this hour? Is not the same grace manifested to us who were, by
nature, enemies to the Saviour, his ministers, and people; as such, to
his Doctrines and Ordinances. We could, perhaps, recollect the time when
our prejudices were strong against these things, but, glory be to free
grace alone, we are changed; now we are never happy but at the feet of
Jesus, and feeding on him, his Word, and in his Ordinances, the food on
which we live, and which I shall speak of at the close of this Subject.
_Secondly_. This Promise may refer to the two natures in every Believer,
_Sin_ and _Grace_. The sinful nature of the Believer is not
changed—_that which is born of the flesh is flesh_—it will be a Wolf all
its days; though it may be kept in, by almighty grace, through deep
trials and sore conflicts; yet, every Believer is, in his New Man,
Lamb-like, though often worried by the Wolf of his own corruptions. Yet
these must dwell together till death; these walk, these rise up, and lie
down together; this is our plague, out affliction, and distress; and
though we are condemned as lovers of sin, we can assure our foes we
should be glad to get rid of it. Sin a burthen to the New Man; so we
feel it. This sinful nature feeds on earth, and every thing that is
contrary to God; but the New Man only on the great things of God.
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