A sermon preached at the Magdalen Hospital ... : on Tuesday, 23rd of April 1833 / [John Kaye].

  • John Kaye
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1833
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Credit: A sermon preached at the Magdalen Hospital ... : on Tuesday, 23rd of April 1833 / [John Kaye]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the objects of Christ’s love. Not only do we testify our love towards them by the relief of their temporal wants; but we watch for their eternal welfare. The future destiny of those for whom Christ died, cannot be to us a mat¬ ter of indifference. The same mind will be in us which was in Him. Our solicitude will be to constitute ourselves instruments in his hands of saving that which is in danger of being lost. The spectacle, which will excite our liveliest compassion, will be that of a fel¬ low creature who has yielded to the seduc¬ tions of the Tempter; but is struggling to ex¬ tricate himself from his toils, and to return into the paths of righteousness. Every con¬ sideration of his faults will be absorbed in that of the peril to which he is exposed. We shall see in him only a brother who is about to perish, and whom it is our duty to save. We shall hasten to his assistance, and draw him back from the precipice on which he is standing, and speak the words of comfort and encouragement to his soul; we shall
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