Town and Country Sermons. Charles Kingsley

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       Charles Kingsley

      Town and Country Sermons

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066244699

Table of Contents

       SERMON I. HOW TO KEEP PASSION WEEK

       SERMON II. THE DIVINE HUNGER AND THIRST

       SERMON III. THE TRANSFIGURATION

       SERMON IV. A SOLDIER’S TRAINING

       SERMON V. CHRIST’S SHEEP

       SERMON VI. THE HEARING EAR AND THE SEEING EYE

       SERMON VII. THE VICTORY OF FAITH

       SERMON VIII. TURNING-POINTS

       SERMON IX. OBADIAH

       SERMON X. RELIGIOUS DANGERS

       SERMON XI. BLESSING AND CURSING

       SERMON XII. WORK

       SERMON XIII. FALSE PROPHETS

       SERMON XIV. THE ROCK OF AGES

       SERMON XV. ANTIPATHIES

       SERMON XVI. ST. PAUL

       SERMON XVII. THE BROKEN AND CONTRITE HEART

       SERMON XVIII. ST. PETER

       SERMON XIX. ELIJAH

       SERMON XX. THE LOFTINESS OF HUMILITY

       SERMON XXI. THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD

       SERMON XXII. THE TORMENT OF FEAR

       SERMON XXIII. THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT

       SERMON XXIV. THE UNRIGHTEOUS MAMMON

       SERMON XXV. THE SIGHS OF CHRIST

       SERMON XXVI. THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA

       SERMON XXVII. THE INVASION OF THE ASSYRIANS

       SERMON XXVIII. THE TEN LEPERS

       SERMON XXIX. PARDON AND PEACE

       SERMON XXX. THE CENTRAL SUN

       SERMON XXXI. CHRISTMAS PEACE

       SERMON XXXII. THE LIFE OF THE SPIRIT

       SERMON XXXIII. THE UNCHANGEABLE ONE

       SERMON XXXIV. ΕΝ ΤΟΥΤΩ ΝΙΚΑ

       SERMON XXXV. THE ETERNAL MANHOOD

       SERMON XXXVI. THE BATTLE WITHIN

       SERMON XXXVII. HYPOCRISY

       SERMON XXXVIII. A PEOPLE PREPARED FOR THE LORD

       SERMON XXXIX. THE WRATH OF LOVE

SERMON I. HOW TO KEEP PASSION WEEK

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      (Preached before the Queen.)

      Philippians ii. 5–11. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

      This the first day of Passion Week; and this text is the key-note of Passion Week. It tells us of the obedience of Christ; of the unselfishness of Christ; and, therefore, of the true glory of Christ.

      It tells us of One who was in the form of God; the Co-equal and Co-eternal Son; the brightness of his Father’s glory, the express image of his Father’s person: but who showed forth his Father’s glory, and proved that he was the express likeness of his Father’s character, by the very opposite means to those which man takes, when he wishes to show forth his own glory.

      He was in the form of God. But he did not (so the text seems to mean) think that the bliss of God was a thing to be seized on greedily for himself. He did not think fit merely to glorify himself; to enjoy himself. He was not like the false gods of whom the