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Published: 2012-01
Total Pages: 198
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III.] fy living as members of Christ. 11 pattern of His own gentleness and lowliness, infuses into us the same power wherewith He redeemed us, as He Himself, our Lord, promises: Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will refresh you. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly of heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls.1 Let us, then, take on us that yoke?not a heavy nor painful one?of the Truth which guides us, and be like to His lowliness, to Whose glory we desire to be conformed; while He assists and leads us on to His promises, Who according to His great mercy is able to efface our sins, and to perfect His own gifts in us, even Jesus Christ our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth for ever and ever. Amen. SERMON III. CHRISTMAS. Serm. 26. In Nativitate Domini, VI. Omnibus quidem. There are certainly no days nor times, dearly beloved, in which the birth of our Lord and Saviour from a Virgin Mother does not present itself to the minds of the faithful, while meditating on the things of God; so that, when the soul is lifted up to do homage to its Maker, whether it be employed in the sighs of supplication, or in joyful bursts of praise, or in the offering of sacrifice,2 its spiritual insight takes 1 S. Matt. xi. 28. See Note 19. 12 The Glories of Christmas. sbrm. hold of nothing more frequently or more trustfully than the fact that God, the Son of God, begotten of the co-eternal Father, was also Himself born of a human birth. But this Nativity, adorable in heaven and on earth, is brought before us by no day more clearly than by this, which, while a fresh light is beaming in the natural world, brings home to our perceptions1 the brightness of the wondrous mystery. For not only into our remembrance, but in some sen...