The Gospel of the Pentateuch: A Set of Parish Sermons

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Charles Kingsley. The Gospel of the Pentateuch: A Set of Parish Sermons

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THE GOSPEL OF THE PENTATEUCH TO THE REV. CANON STANLEY

SERMON I. GOD IN CHRIST

SERMON II. THE LIKENESS OF GOD

SERMON III. THE VOICE OF THE LORD GOD

SERMON IV. NOAH’S FLOOD

SERMON V. ABRAHAM

SERMON VI. JACOB AND ESAU

SERMON VII. JOSEPH

SERMON VIII. THE BIBLE THE GREAT CIVILIZER

SERMON IX. MOSES

SERMON X. THE PLAGUES OF EGYPT

SERMON XI. THE GOD OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IS THE GOD OF THE NEW

SERMON XII. THE BIRTHNIGHT OF FREEDOM

SERMON XIII. KORAH, DATHAN, AND ABIRAM

SERMON XIV. BALAAM

SERMON XV. DEUTERONOMY

SERMON XVI. NATIONAL WEALTH

SERMON XVII. THE GOD OF THE RAIN

SERMON XVIII. THE DEATH OF MOSES

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(Septuagesima Sunday.)

GENESIS i.  I.  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

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It is the Lord who speaks to Abraham: though Abraham knew him only as El-Shaddai, the Almighty God.  It is the Lord who brings the Israelites out of Egypt, who gives them the law on Sinai.  It is the Lord who speaks to Samuel, to David, to all the Prophets, and appears to Isaiah, while his glory fills the Temple.  In whatever ‘divers manners’ and ‘many portions,’ as St. Paul says in the Epistle to the Hebrews, he speaks to them, he is the same Being.

And Psalmists and Prophets are most careful to tell us that he is the God, not of the Jews only, but of the Gentiles; of all mankind—as indeed, he must be, being Jehovah, the I Am, the one Self-existent and Eternal Being; that from his throne he is watching and judging all the nations upon earth, fashioning the hearts of all, appointing them their bounds, and the times of their habitation, if haply they may seek after him and find him, though he be not far from any one of them; for in him they live and move and have their being.

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