A sermon, preached in the Cathedral, Manchester, on Sunday morning, April 30th, 1854 / by the Rev. Charles Richson ... with notes by John Sutherland of the General Board of Health, London.

  • Richson, Charles.
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1854
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Credit: A sermon, preached in the Cathedral, Manchester, on Sunday morning, April 30th, 1854 / by the Rev. Charles Richson ... with notes by John Sutherland of the General Board of Health, London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    originally delivered, and the special means, Divinely ap¬ pointed, for keeping them continually in remembrance. Accordingly we find that when the Two Tables of Stone, containing a summary of the sacred will, written by the Finger of God, were given to Moses (Ex. xix. 16; xxxi. 18; Deut. ix. 10), “so terrible was the sight that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake” (Heb. xii. 21). And, lest the people should imagine that this summary only was all that God intended to be of permanent obligation, it was declared in the Second Commandment that God would show himself merciful only to those who “kept his Commandments,” which (as a comparison of Ex. xx. 5, 6 or Deut. vi. 2 with Ex. xxiii. 24, 25; Deut. viii. 11 or Deut. xxvi. 18, and Dan. ix. 4 to 6, will show), comprised all the precepts and statutes and judg¬ ments, which the Lord delivered unto the people by his im¬ mediate inspiration. To give, however, the greatest possible effect to that awful scene, which occurred in the delivery of the Law upon Mount Sinai, the people were forewarned of its approach and pre¬ pared for its solemnities. They were pledged also to obey the Divine will (Ex. xix. 8) ; “ All that the Lord hath spoken,” say they, “we will do;” or, to quote their more emphatic declaration on another occasion, “ All that the Lord hath said, will we do, and be obedient” (Ex. xxiv. 3, 7). Moreover, to remind the children of Israel of their peculiar obligations to obey the Divine will, it was enacted as a Law, that Prayers of inspired composition (Deut. xxvi. 5 to 10, and 12 to 15) should be used in the offering of First-Fruits and Tithes; also that the whole of the Law should be read to the people at prescribed periods (Deut. xxxi. 10, 11); and that “ All the words of this Law” should be written upon certain plastered stones, which, that their contents might never be forgotten, were to be fixed in the vicinity of the altar (Deut. xxvii. 1 to 10); and besides all this, God’s mercy and vengeance were set forth in a Divine Song, not to be