General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1728 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: SERMON I. On Whitsunday, Preach’d at Lambeth ChapeljW 7 John XIV. f, 16. Theje things have Ifpoken unto you, being yet prefent ‘with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghoft, whom the Father will fend in my Name, he Jhall teach you all things, and I/ring all things to your remembrance, whatjoever I have faid unto you, ] HESE Words (being part of the Gofpel for this Day) do not only contain the Promiie of that infinite and wonderful Benefit, the Completion of which we this Day commemorate i but alfo declare theNa- Vol. I. B tureture and Intention of it; and thereby moft fitly not only excite us to a grateful Remembrance of the divine Beneficence, but alfo teach us to form true Apprehenfions and a juft Veneration of fo great a Myftery. A Myftery which was promis’d by Chrift to his Apoftles as the greateft of all Benefits, which might alone fupply the otherwife irreparable Lois of his Prefence, and intirely dif- pel their Grief arifing from the melancholy Apprehenfion of his approaching Departure. A Myftery which was referved for the ultimate Confummation of the Chriftian Religion and divine Difpenfation of the Gofpelj which being defigned by the Father, and founded by the Son, was at laft brought to Perfection by the Miffion and Defcent of the Holy Ghoft. No wonder therefore if the Promife of fo great a Benefit was fo mightily infifted on by Chrift, as a fufficient Remedy to his Difciples for all Afflictions, and the laft and greateft Legacy which he could bequeath unto them; if the -performance of it was fo earneftly ex- pected by the Apoftles; and the remembrance of it with an uninterru…
