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SERMON XV.

THE TESTIMONY OF ENEMIES.

DEUTERONOMY XXXii. 31.

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"Their rock is not as our rock, even our enemies themselves

being judges"

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[Preached on Trinity Sunday, at St. Bride's, Fleet-street, on behalf of

the London Fever Hospital.]

SERMON I.'

THE GREATNESS OF BEING USEFUL.

ST. MATT. xx. 26, 27, 28.

"But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister."

WE can easily suppose, that, if we introduced these words, without illustration or comment, into a circle of men unaccustomed to the acting on high Christian principles, they would be received with feelings of scorn and dislike. If in addressing an individual, whose prime object it is to make himself distinguished upon earth, we were to recommend to him the becoming the servant of his fellow-men, as the surest mode of reaching the coveted eminence, it is more than probable that our counsel, on first hearing,

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Preached before the Corporation of Trinity House, on Trinity Monday, 1838.

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