Sermons Ed by J Scott Author:John Scott General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1835 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: SERMON V. JOHN Hi. I8. HE THAT BELIEVETH ON HIM IS NOT CONDEMNED : BUT HE THAT BELIEVETH NOT IS CONDEMNED ALREADY, BECAUSE HE HATH NOT BELIEVED IN THE NAME OF THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD. Some persons like not the preaching of faith: others avow that they do not understand it: and both are apt to think, that, in insisting so much upon faith, we undervalue, if we do not even supersede good works. Now I would earnestly intreat both these descriptions of persons seriously to observe, how very much the Sacred Scriptures say concerning faith ; the stress which they lay upon it; the importance which they assign to it. Let the passage of my text be" taken at present, as the single example. It is part of our Lord's very solemn and impressive discourse with Nico- demus. Now hear the fourteenth and four following verses. " As Moses lifted up the serpent inthe wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world ; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him, is not condemned: but he that believeth not, is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." Now can we preach faith with more repetition than this ? Can we give more importance to it, than is done by thus inseparably connecting salvation with faith, and perdition with the want of faith ? And the scriptu...« less