Sermons [Ed by H Horsley]

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: SERMON III. Matthew, xxiv. 3. Tell us when shall these things be; and what shall be the signs of thy coming, and of the end of the world ? It was upon the Wednesday in the Passion-week, that our Lord, for the last time retiring from the temple, where he had closed his public teaching with a severe...
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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: SERMON III. Matthew, xxiv. 3. Tell us when shall these things be; and what shall be the signs of thy coming, and of the end of the world ? It was upon the Wednesday in the Passion-week, that our Lord, for the last time retiring from the temple, where he had closed his public teaching with a severe invective against the hypocrisy of the Scribes and Pharisees, uttered to the apostles, remarking with admiration as they passed the strength and beauty of that stately fabric, that prediction of its ap- proaching demolition which gave occasion to the question which is related in my text. When they reached the Mount of Olives, aad Jesus was seated on a part of the hiHwhere the city and the temple lay in prospect before him, four of the apostles took advantage of that retirement to obtain, as they hoped, from our Lord's mouth, full satisfaction of the curiosity which his prediction of the temple's ruin had excited. Peter, James, John, and Andrew, came to him, and asked him privately?Tell us when shall these things be; and what shall be the signs of thy coming, and of the end of the world? To this inquiry our Lord was pleased to reply in a prophetical discourse of some considerable length, which takes up two entire chapters, the twenty- fourth and the twenty-fifth, of St. Matlhev's Gospel; and yet is brief, if the discourse be measured by the subject, ? if the length of speech be compared with the period of time which the prophecy embraces, commencing within a few years after our Lord's ascension, and ending only with the general judgment. This discourse, consists of two principal branches. The first is the answer to the first part of the question, When shall these things be? ?that is, ? When shall this demolition of the temple be, which thou hast now foretold? And the second...