Sermons for the Christian Year

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 IV. VICTORY. EASTER DAY. Ex. xv. 6. "Thy right hand, 0 Lord, is become glorious in power: Thy right hand, 0 Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.'' The last words of the Lord's Prayer suit as well with Easter Day, as the former words all along with Holy Week. I mean, when it ends, as you know it does sometimes, with acknowledging, "Thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever." Those words of glory, do you not see how naturally they come in, when, having prayed for pardon and deliverance, we are just receiving assurance of both by the Resurrection of our Lord and Saviour ? Christ rising from the dead is indeed the manifestation of God's Kingdom, Power and Glory in very many ways. His glory beamed out to the very eye, as our Lord moved about with His glorious and spiritual Body. His power He proved to be Almighty, when He raised Himself from the dead. And thereupon immediately followed His kingdom, which He took to Himself in heaven, when He sat down on the Right Hand of the Throne of God : andwhich also He set up on earth, when He sent down the Holy Ghost on the Apostles. A great deal might be said of these three subjects; the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory of the Most High; how Christ's Resurrection magnifies and proclaims them all: but I shall consider that Resurrection now in one way only, viz. as it was a victory: a great victory and triumph of our blessed Master over a set of very powerful and dangerous enemies. First, Christ's Resurrection was a victory, even in a visible and outward sense : a victory over the profane Jews and Romans. They thought to imprison Him, but He brake His prison-bars. They sealed the stone ; His Angel rolled it away. They set a watch of soldiers: they did but see the robe and countenance of Christ'...