A Memorial of Thomas Binney, Ed by J Stoughton

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 PREACHED IN THE WEIGH-HOUSE CHAPEL, SUNDAY, MARCH Wi, 1874, REV. JOHN STOUGHTON, D.D. SERMON. When Mr. William Jay preached the funeral sermon for Rowland Hill, he took for his text, Howl, fir-tree, for the cedar is fallen. And he appropriately dwelt on the impression made by the death of a man of...
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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 PREACHED IN THE WEIGH-HOUSE CHAPEL, SUNDAY, MARCH Wi, 1874, REV. JOHN STOUGHTON, D.D. SERMON. When Mr. William Jay preached the funeral sermon for Rowland Hill, he took for his text, Howl, fir-tree, for the cedar is fallen. And he appropriately dwelt on the impression made by the death of a man of mark. Thousands felt last Monday, as they gathered together to follow Thomas Binney to the grave, that one of God's cedars in Lebanon had been laid low. And to-day the feeling returns with even more force, for here we are assembled, as it were, on the very spot of the mountain side where the cedar grew, and where from week to week many of you gathered under its shadow, and were refreshed by its fragrance. I feel that the duty which devolves on me is as important as it is solemn, as difficult as it is affecting; and nothing but the memory of an acquaintance running over forty years, and growing into a friendship for the last half of thatperiod, would have induced me to undertake it. My trust in preparing this discourse has been in the Divine Master: in like trust I now deliver it. They glorified God in me.?Gal. i. 24. The points brought before us in this passage, written by St. Paul, are the manifestation of God in man, and the glorification of God by some, for the manifestation they see of Him in others. The first is implied in the text, the second is expressed, and the explicit statement cannot be understood, without pondering the implicit fact. I shall endeavour to bring out the fact of the divine manifestation in man; to illustrate the point by a general review of our friend's life and character; and, in conclusion, to indicate how we may glorify God in him, as the Churches of Judaea glorified God in the Apostle Paul. I. The manifestation o...