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Holy Week in Norwich Cathedral; Being Seven Lectures on the Several Members of the Most Sacred Body of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Holy Week in Norwich Cathedral Being Seven Lectures on the Several Members of the Most Sacred Body of Our Lord Jesus Christ Author:Edward Meyrick Goulburn General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1885 Original Publisher: Rivingtons Subjects: Sermons Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christian Ministry / Preaching 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 Ge... more »neral Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Ascension Day to give Him entrance into the heavenly sanctuary,1 will be lifted up again to give Him egress to the earth, according to that word of His own ; " If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."2 And when He thus comes, how will He greet "them that look for him"?8 He will lift up His hands over them, and " give " them " the gracious benediction of his Father, commanding " them "to take possession of his glorious kingdom," 4 and saying thus ; " Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world."5 -- O Lord, make us even now true sheep of Thy pasture, so that we may appear before Thee as sheep,6 and be set on Thy right hand, whenThou shalt come in Thy glory, and all the holy angels with Thee ; and enable us, we beseech Thee, to " walk in love, as Thou hast loved us," 1 loving one another, "not in word, neither in tongue ; but in deed and in truth," 2 so that we, overshadowed by Thy pierced Hands, may hear from Thy lips in the great day those words of blessing ! Amen, Amen. 1 See Psalm xxiv. 7, 9. 2 St. John xiv. 3. 3 See Heb. ixi 28. Address in the Commination Service. 3 St. Matt. xxv. 34. 6 mi. 31, 32, 33. It is important to observe that the decision upon character will have been made previously to what is called the final judgment, but which is more strictly the final award. The sheep are sheep, and the goats goats, at the time of their...« less