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CHARACTER, ADVENT,

AND

HUMILIATION.

BY JOHN NEWTON, Author of Omicron's Letters, Ecclesiastical History, &c.

VOLUME II.

UNUM PRO MULTIS DABITUR CAPUT.

VIRGIL.

For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead. And that he died for all, that they which live, should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

2 COR. v. 14, 15.

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men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them.

SERMON XXX.

The Publication of the Gospel.

PSALM lxviii. 11.

38

The Lord gave the word, great was the company of those that published it. [Or, of the preachers.]

SERMON XXXI.

The Gospel Message Glad Tidings.

ROM. x. 15.

51

[As it is written] How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things. SERMON XXXII.

The Progress of the Gospel.

ROM. x. 18.

64

-Their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the end of the world.

SERMON XXXIII.

Opposition to Messiah unreasonable.

PSALM ii. 1....3.

77

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord,, and against his anointed; saying, Let us break his bonds asunder, and cast away his cords from us.

SERMON XXXIV.

Opposition to Messiah in vain.

PSALM ii. 4.

89

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision,

VOL. II.

102

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