This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...divine messengers to Abraham--addressed by him as ' my Lord' or Gen. i-ii. 3, the creation of the world. Here, as in the first Lesson for the morning, the singular and plural pronouns are used in the same passage in reference to the Deity. ' Let us make man in our image... So God created man in His own image, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...divine messengers to Abraham--addressed by him as ' my Lord' or Gen. i-ii. 3, the creation of the world. Here, as in the first Lesson for the morning, the singular and plural pronouns are used in the same passage in reference to the Deity. ' Let us make man in our image... So God created man in His own image, ' &c. Second Lesson, Ephes. iv. 1-16. A call to unity as based on belief in one Spirit--one Lord, one God and Father of all; or St. Matt. iii. The baptism of our Lord, when the voice from heaven was heard declaring Him to be the Son of God, and the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove descended and rested upon Him. Seconfc Diotsion of tbe Cbristian )ear. TRINITY TO ADVENT. FROM Advent to Trinity the Church commemorates the great facts upon which the Christian faith is grounded. After Trinity our minds are directed rather to the practical duties and virtues which are the natural outcome of this faith. The Collects are mostly prayers for help to live rightly. The Epistles are exhortations to the practice of Christian graces. The Gospels present the example and practical teaching of our Lord under various aspects. The Epistles for the first three Sundays are from St. John and St. Peter. The remainder, except on the fifth and twenty-fifth Sundays, are from St. Paul's Epistles, and in the order in which they occur in the New Testament, except on the eighteenth Sunday. First Sunday after Trinity. The COLLECT, from the Sacramentary of Gelasius, A.D. 492, consists of--1. A confession of our inability to do what is right without God's help; a very suitable opening of a season which is chiefly concernedwith practical teaching. 2. A prayer for the divine grace. The Epistle. The love of God to man: our obligation to love God, and to love also our...
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