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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- THE VALEDICTORY ADDRESS
- A CHARGE
- SERMON I PREACHING OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
- SERMON II OFFICE OF CHRIST
- SERMON III CHARACTER OF CHRIST AND HIS RELIGION
- SERMON IV CHRIST PREACHING TO SINNERS
- SERMON V THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL
- SERMON VI THE CHRISTIAN'S FAITH AND FEAR
- SERMON VII THE CHRISTIAN'S TREATMENT ON EARTH
- SERMON VIII THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN
- SERMON IX THE GOOD SAMARITAN
- SERMON X LABOURERS IN THE VINEYARD
- SERMON XI THE CONVERSION OF THE HEATHEN
- SERMON XII THE OMNIPRESENCE OF GOD
- SERMON XIII SIN AND GRACE
- SERMON XIV ON THE LOVE OF GOD
- SERMON XV CHRISTMAS DAY
- SERMON XVI NEW YEAR'S DAY
- SERMON XVII EASTER DAY
- ADDRESS ON CONFIRMATION
SERMON XIV - ON THE LOVE OF GOD
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- THE VALEDICTORY ADDRESS
- A CHARGE
- SERMON I PREACHING OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
- SERMON II OFFICE OF CHRIST
- SERMON III CHARACTER OF CHRIST AND HIS RELIGION
- SERMON IV CHRIST PREACHING TO SINNERS
- SERMON V THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL
- SERMON VI THE CHRISTIAN'S FAITH AND FEAR
- SERMON VII THE CHRISTIAN'S TREATMENT ON EARTH
- SERMON VIII THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN
- SERMON IX THE GOOD SAMARITAN
- SERMON X LABOURERS IN THE VINEYARD
- SERMON XI THE CONVERSION OF THE HEATHEN
- SERMON XII THE OMNIPRESENCE OF GOD
- SERMON XIII SIN AND GRACE
- SERMON XIV ON THE LOVE OF GOD
- SERMON XV CHRISTMAS DAY
- SERMON XVI NEW YEAR'S DAY
- SERMON XVII EASTER DAY
- ADDRESS ON CONFIRMATION
Summary
St. Matt. xxii. 37—40.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
This beautiful summary of duty, even before the time of Christ, appears to have been proverbial among the Jews, as the statement of those objects which the law of Moses was intended to secure and illustrate. But whoever was its original author, (something like it, though not the very words themselves, may be found in the Psalms, and in the prophet Micah a still nearer approach to its import) yet as thus solemnly adopted by Christ it becomes entitled to the acceptance and obedience of every Christian, and an adherence to its rule as among the surest pledges which any Christian can offer of his continuance in the faith, and that his faith is such as may hereafter profit him. A sense, indeed, of God's goodness, and a desire to render ourselves acceptable to Him, is the only principle of action which a wise and gracious God can be supposed to regard with pleasure. We are God's children, not His slaves; and it is our love which He requires, as much as, and still more than, our obedience.
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- Sermons Preached in India , pp. 235 - 254Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1829