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: THE LARGE UPPER ROOM OF THE Mind of Man, Being sacramentally prepared for Christ’s Divine presence and abode. SERMON MARK XIV. 15. And ke will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us. Preached at HULL, Dec. 1st 1803. BY THE REV. G. NICHOLSON, LATE PERPETUAL CURATE OF LITTLE HU U WORTH, CHESHIRE. Sonfton: Printed by W. Jfenee, St. Mary Axe; And Sold By L. B. Seeley, Fleet Street; T. Hamilton, Paternoster Row; And Williams And Co. Stationer’s Court. 1817. Price One Shilling. A SERMON. MARK XIV. 15. And he will sheiv you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us, Saint Peter observes that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation. The Lord spake according to representation, or in parabolical and figurative language; and eveiy thing came to pass in his incarnate progress, according to divine Providence. Therefore, even historical circumstances in the Word, are recorded for our spiritual instruction and experimental application. Far fetched expositions, incongruous comparisons, flights of fancy, and enthusiastic conjectures, are to beavoided. But, even these would do us no harm, should divine truth and eternal use govern the excursions of novelty and ingenuity. But the doctrine of analogy, which is a language and a science of celestial extraction, stands not insuch a predicament. It is orderly, infallible, useful, rational, and divine. It is comprehensible, yet mysterious; adapted to the apprehension of the natural man, and also to that of the spiritual man. It is therefore suited to the progressive order of human instruction, and leads to the Lord and heaven, in the most diversified, pleasing, and effectual manner. And as religion is generally es…