The Life of Duty, volume II

The Life of Duty, v. 2, by H. J. Wilmot-Buxton

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Title: The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles
Author: H. J. Wilmot-Buxton
Release Date: July 15, 2007 [EBook #22075]
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The Life of Duty
A YEAR'S PLAIN SERMONS
ON THE
GOSPELS OR EPISTLES.
VOL. II.
TRINITY TO ADVENT.
BY
H. J. WILMOT-BUXTON, M.A.,
VICAR OF S. GILES-IN-THE-WOOD, N. DEVON.
AUTHOR OF "SUNDAY SERMONETTES FOR A YEAR." "MISSION SERMONS." "THE LIFE WORTH LIVING AND OTHER PLAIN SERMONS." "THE CHILDREN'S BREAD A SERIES OF SHORT SERMONS FOR CHILDREN." "THE LORD'S SONG SERMONS ON HYMNS," ETC.

Sixth Edition.

London:
SKEFFINGTON & SON, PICCADILLY, W.,
PUBLISHERS TO H.M. THE QUEEN AND TO H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES.
1898.

TO
MY DEAR MOTHER,
MY EARLIEST AND BEST TEACHER AND GUIDE, THESE SERMONS ARE DEDICATED.

Contents.

THE OPEN DOOR (Trinity Sunday) REV. iv. 1. "A door was opened in Heaven."
THE CONTRAST (First Sunday after Trinity) S. LUKE xvi. 19, 20. "There was a certain rich man, . . . and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus."
THE WAY OF LIFE (Second Sunday after Trinity) 1 JOHN iii. 14. "We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren."
MAN'S LIFE HIS MONUMENT (Third Sunday after Trinity) 1 S. PETER v. 10. "The God of all grace . . . make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you."
THE BLESSING OF MERCY (Fourth Sunday after Trinity) S. LUKE vi. 36. "Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful."
THE WORDS OF OUR LIPS (Fifth Sunday after Trinity) 1 S. PETER iii. 10. "For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile."
ALIVE UNTO GOD (Sixth Sunday after Trinity) ROMANS vi. 11. "Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord."
SERVANTS OF SIN (Seventh Sunday after Trinity) ROMANS vi. 20. "The servants of sin."
KNOWN BY THEIR FRUITS (Eighth Sunday after Trinity) S. MATT. vii. 16. "Ye shall know them by their fruits."
RENDERING OUR ACCOUNT (Ninth Sunday after Trinity) S. LUKE xvi. 2. "Give an account of thy stewardship."
THE TEARS OF CHRIST (Tenth Sunday after Trinity) S. LUKE xix. 41. "He beheld the city, and wept over it."
THE GRACE OF GOD (Eleventh Sunday after Trinity) 1 Cor. xv. 10. "By the Grace of God I am what I am."
DEAF EARS AND STAMMERING TONGUES (Twelfth Sunday after Trinity) S. MARK vii. 37. "He hath done all things well. He maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak."
THE GOOD SAMARITAN (Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity) S. LUKE x. 30. "A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves."
WALKING WITH GOD (Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity) GALATIANS v. 16. "Walk in the Spirit."
THE PREACHING OF NATURE (Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity) S. MATT. vi. 28. "Consider the lilies of the field."
PAST KNOWLEDGE (Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity) EPHESIANS iii. 19. "To know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge."
THE PRISON-HOUSE (Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity) EPHESIANS iv. 1. "The prisoner of the Lord."
FIRM TO THE END (Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity) 1 COR. i. 8. "Who also shall confirm you unto the end."
SCHOLARS OF CHRIST (Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity) EPHESIANS iv. 20. "Ye have not so learned Christ."
WARY WALKING (Twentieth Sunday after Trinity) EPHESIANS v. 15. "See then that ye walk circumspectly."
STRONG CHRISTIANS (Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity) EPHESIANS vi. 10. "My brethren, be strong in the Lord."
THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS (Twenty-second Sunday after Trinity) S. MATTHEW xviii. 28. "Pay me that thou owest."
THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY (Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity) PHIL. iii. 20. "Our conversation is in Heaven."
THANKFUL SERVICE (Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity) COL. i. 12. "Giving thanks."
GATHERING THE FRAGMENTS (Twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity) S. JOHN vi. 12. "Gather up the fragments that remain."
WHAT THE FLOWERS SAY (Children's Flower Service) PSALM ciii. 15. "As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth."
DAILY BREAD (Harvest Thanksgiving) PSALM lxv. 9. "Thou preparest them corn."
GOD'S JEWELS (Schools) MALACHI iii. 17. "They shall be Mine, saith the Lord of Hosts, in that day when I make up My jewels."
MUTUAL HELP (Female Friendly Society) S. MARK iii. 35. "Whosoever shall do the Will of God, the same is My brother, and My sister, and My Mother."

SERMON XXXV.
THE OPEN DOOR.
(Trinity Sunday.)
REV. iv. 1.
"A door was opened in Heaven."
When Dante had written his immortal poems on Hell and Purgatory, the people of Italy used to shrink