Publication
Newburyport: Printed by William B. Allen & Co. and for sale at the Newburyport Book-store, No. 13, Cornhill.
Physical description
30 p.; 21 inches
Notes
Sermon text: 1 Corinthians 1: 23-24.
"When we recollect that is the declaration of one who had been a violent opposer of Jesus of Nazareth, and his infant church, we perceive a surprising instance of the power and sovereignty of divine grace. How merciful, and to human view, how improbable the interposition, which transformed a bigoted, unrelenting persecutor of Christianity, into its most affectionate friend, and courageous champion!--No wonder that this divine and miraculous interposition made an indelible impression on the Apostle's own mind. Never could he forget his journey to Damascus; never lose sight of that compassionate Savior who stopped him in his desperate career; nor ever glance a thought at the scene, without a thousand mingled emotions of astonishment, delight and gratitude. Henceforth, he determines to know nothing but Jesus Christ, and him crucified. His inmost soul detests the thought of glorying in any thing, but that very cross which once he despised. And his life is one vigorous, unremitted effort to spread the triumphs of that love by which himself had been conquered and saved."
"When we recollect that is the declaration of one who had been a violent opposer of Jesus of Nazareth, and his infant church, we perceive a surprising instance of the power and sovereignty of divine grace. How merciful, and to human view, how improbable the interposition, which transformed a bigoted, unrelenting persecutor of Christianity, into its most affectionate friend, and courageous champion!--No wonder that this divine and miraculous interposition made an indelible impression on the Apostle's own mind. Never could he forget his journey to Damascus; never lose sight of that compassionate Savior who stopped him in his desperate career; nor ever glance a thought at the scene, without a thousand mingled emotions of astonishment, delight and gratitude. Henceforth, he determines to know nothing but Jesus Christ, and him crucified. His inmost soul detests the thought of glorying in any thing, but that very cross which once he despised. And his life is one vigorous, unremitted effort to spread the triumphs of that love by which himself had been conquered and saved."