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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1890 Original Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton Subjects: Sermons, English Sermons, German Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christian Ministry / Preaching Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 1 IV. NECESSITY OF THE NEW BIUTH. (On Trinity Sunday.) Text: Joira iii. 1-8. WHEN the Saviour promised to His disciples the Spirit, who, after His own departure from the earth, was to como upon them abundantly, Ho said to them, He will take- of Mine and give unto you, and thereby He will glorify Me in and through you. We have once more completed the circle of our memorial festivals, from His birth to the fulfilment of that promise; and now, without being reminded, by the universal custom of the Church, of any specially great event in the times of the founding of Christianity, we have before our Christian assemblies a long period of quiet meditation. What better can we wish for that period, than that this very Spirit who glorifies Christ may be always among us, so that each of our devout meditations may exalt Him in our eyes, and that thus, through His having a more constant and active power in us, He may be also more and more glorified through us. / It is therefore my purpose, in the period on which we are entering, to follow the words of the Saviour that I have just quoted; wo will take of His own, that His Spirit may more and more enlighten us and glorify Him before us. They shall be words which the evangelists have preserved for us as His own; the most direct sayings from His lips, with which we intend during this time to connect our meditations. If, then, His Spirit is actually among us, if Christ becomes increasingly glorious to u...

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