David: Five Sermons

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Charles Kingsley. David: Five Sermons

SERMON I. DAVID’S WEAKNESS

SERMON II. DAVID’S STRENGTH

SERMON III. DAVID’S ANGER

SERMON IV. DAVID’S DESERTS

SERMON V. FRIENDSHIP; OR, DAVID AND JONATHAN

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Psalm lxxviii. 71, 72, 73.  He chose David his servant, and took him away from the sheep-folds.  As he was following the ewes great with young ones, he took him; that he might feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.  So he fed them with a faithful and true heart, and ruled them prudently with all his power.

I am about to preach to you four sermons on the character of David.  His history, I take for granted, you all know.

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It is certainly not the doctrine of the Catechism, which bids us renounce the flesh, and live by the help of God’s Spirit a new life of duty to God and to our neighbour.

It is certainly not the doctrine of the New Testament.  Whatsoever St. Paul meant by bidding his disciples crucify the flesh, with its affections and lusts, he did not mean thereby that they were to deify the flesh, as the heathen round them did in their profligate mysteries and in their gladiatorial exhibitions.

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