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SERMON I
THE GOD OF HOPE.
"Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost."
Rom. xv. 13.
In how many consoling aspects do the inspired writings represent the great Sovereign of the Universe, at whose dread tribunal mankind are destined to appear, to render an account of the deeds done in the body. Conscious as we all are of guilt and condemnation, had we no other point of view to contemplate our Creator, than, as All-wise, Just and Omnipotent, what an accumulation of bitterness would be mixed in that cup of sorrow, of which, all more or less are forced to partake, in their pilgrimage
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