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Lord." So, when He shall come again in His glorious Majesty to judge both the quick and dead, we may be found acceptable in His sight, see as we are seen, and know as we are known.

i 2 Cor. iii. 18.

k 1 Cor. xiii, 12.

SERMON VIII.

TO THE SELF EXCOMMUNICATE.

LUKE XV. 1, 2.

Then drew near unto Him all the publicans and sinners for to hear Him. And the Pharisees and Scribes murmured, saying, This Man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

GOD being perfectly holy; holy beyond expression by speech of created being; so that even the Cherubim and Seraphim cannot declare it, though in His presence they continually do cry, Holy! holy! holy! Lord God of Sabaoth! and we being unholy from our very birth, how can it be brought to pass that we should ever be able to have access to Him? The creature cannot be blissful except by com

Lord." So, when He shall come again in His glorious Majesty to judge both the quick and dead, we may be found acceptable in His sight, see as we are seen, and know as we are known *.

i 2 Cor. iii. 18.

1 Cor. xiii, 12.

SERMON VIII.

TO THE SELF EXCOMMUNICATE,

LUKE XV. 1, 2.

Then drew near unto Him all the publicans and sinners for to hear Him. And the Pharisees and Scribes murmured, saying, This Man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

GOD being perfectly holy; holy beyond expression by speech of created being; so that even the Cherubim and Seraphim cannot declare it, though in His presence they continually do cry, Holy! holy! holy! Lord God of Sabaoth! and we being unholy from our very birth, how can it be brought to pass that we should ever be able to have access to Him? The creature cannot be blissful except by com

munion with its Creator; and we by nature crave insatiably for bliss, yet we are also by nature aliens from, and at enmity with, our Creator. How then shall the miserable fallen creature, man, be brought into favour with, be reconciled to, be made blissful by communion with, his Maker? The creature never could have devised the way. Fallen man never could have found access to God, had not God Himself made a way by which He might bring man near unto Himself; had He not Himself reconciled the world to Himself by the precious blood of His dear Son, Jesus Christ the righteous, both God and man.

In the words of our thirty-first Article, "The offering of Christ once made, is that perfect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction for all the sins of the whole world, both original and actual; and there is none other satisfaction for sin but that alone."

And, in the words of our second Article, "The Godhead and Manhood were joined together in one Person, never to be di

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