A sermon preached by the Rt. Rev. the Lord Bishop of Winchester : at S. Peter's Church, Eaton Square, Pimlico, London, S.W., on the second Sunday in Advent, A.D. 1876

Edward Harold Browne

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««?\wr^^^ #%o 00 6^,Q "^m't^"^ t' ^t^ ^T' M'" ^i^iG-.^ -^>f!w/' /3J? HOME REUNION SOCIETY. A SERMON PREACHED BY THE RT REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, AT S. PETERS CHURCH, Eaton Square, Pimlico, London, S.W., ON THE SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT, A.D. 1876. W. WELLS GARDNER, PATERNOSTER2, BUILDINGS, LONDON, E.G.; AND AT THE OFFICE OF THE SOCIETY: 7, Whitehall, London, S.W. 1878. — SERMON.A ye, but not to doubtful*'Hiin that is weak in the faith receive disputations. Romans xiv., 1. His Church was the one visible legacy which the Lord Jesus when weleft to the world. These words seem to be strange Strange, yethave with us the Scriptures of the New Testament. Testament behindthey are true. Christ did not leave the New written till nearlyHim ; not one Gospel nor Epistle can have been tillthirty years after the Ascension the whole was not written; collected into aperhaps seventy years had gone it was not; forvolume, still less universally received as a standard of faith at the very least one century, that first great century of* Christian The Bible is rather the gift oflabour and suffering and success. Saviour. But the Saviour leftthe Spirit than the legacy of the upon earth. Itthe Church to us, and ordained it to be our home theoryis indeed too often said or hinted at, that the Church is a men, not traceableof later days, a phantom raised by fancies of under itsChrist.

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• Bible
• Church of England
• Christian Union (students)

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 6
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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f!w/' /3J? HOME REUNION SOCIETY. A SERMON PREACHED BY THE RT REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, AT S. PETERS CHURCH, Eaton Square, Pimlico, London, S.W., ON THE SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT, A.D. 1876. W. WELLS GARDNER, PATERNOSTER2, BUILDINGS, LONDON, E.G.; AND AT THE OFFICE OF THE SOCIETY: 7, Whitehall, London, S.W. 1878. — SERMON.A ye, but not to doubtful*'Hiin that is weak in the faith receive disputations. Romans xiv., 1. His Church was the one visible legacy which the Lord Jesus when weleft to the world. These words seem to be strange Strange, yethave with us the Scriptures of the New Testament. Testament behindthey are true. Christ did not leave the New written till nearlyHim ; not one Gospel nor Epistle can have been tillthirty years after the Ascension the whole was not written; collected into aperhaps seventy years had gone it was not; forvolume, still less universally received as a standard of faith at the very least one century, that first great century of* Christian The Bible is rather the gift oflabour and suffering and success. Saviour. But the Saviour leftthe Spirit than the legacy of the upon earth. Itthe Church to us, and ordained it to be our home theoryis indeed too often said or hinted at, that the Church is a men, not traceableof later days, a phantom raised by fancies of under itsChrist." />