I shall notice, first of all, the command secondly, I shall try and bring some reasons for your obedience to it and afterwards, I shall draw some suggestions from the law itself. It is so often forgotten, so seldom remembered, "Thou shalt love thy This rough world sometimes needs to be rebuked, and if we can get at the ears of the people, it is our business to reprove them and I think if ever there was a time when this text need to be enlarged upon, it is just now. This morning, I am aware, my sermon will not be very unctuous and savory to you that are always wanting the same round of doctrines, but of this I have but little care. Unless he sometimes thunders out the law, and claims for his Master the right of obedience to it, he will never be very likely to produce conviction-certainly, not that conviction which afterwards leads to conversion. Beloved, it is as much the business of God's minister to preach man's duty, as it is to preach Christ's atonement and unless he doth preach man's duty, he will never be blessed of God to bring man into the proper state to see the beauty of the atonement. You may have started at it at first, but upon diligent reading of the four evangelists, you will find I am correct in stating that very much of our Saviour's time was occupied in telling the people what they ought to do towards one another and many of his sermons are not what our precise critics would in these times call sermons full of unction and savor for certainly they would be far from savory to the sickly sentimental Christians whoĭo not care about the practical part of religion. No, he just as frequently spoke upon the duties of human life, and upon those precious fruits of the Spirit, which are begotten in us by the grace of God. Our Saviour did not every time he stood up to preach, declare the doctrine of election, or of atonement, or of effectual calling, or of final perseverance. Many of the sermons of Christ-and what sermons shall compare with them-have not what is now currently called "the gospel" in them at all. OUR SAVIOUR very often preached upon the moral precepts of the law. "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself"- Mat 19:19 Delivered on Sabbath Morning, August 9th, 1857, by
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