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THE WORK OF CHRIST IN THE WORLD.

 

FOUR SERMONS

PREACHED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

ON THE FOUR SUNDAYS PRECEDING ADVENT
IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1854

 

BY

GEORGE AUGUSTUS SELWYN, D.D.

BISHOP OF NEW ZEALAND,

FORMERLY FELLOW OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE,
CAMBRIDGE

 

Published at the request of the Vice-Chancellor.

 

SECOND EDITION.

 

Cambridge:
MACMILLAN & Co.
1855

PRICE TWO SHILLINGS.

    

Transcribed by the Right Reverend Dr. Terry Brown
Bishop of Malaita, Church of the Province of Melanesia, 2006

[v] CONTENTS.
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SERMON I.

CHRISTIAN WORK THE BEST INTERPRETER OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE.

NOV. 5, 1854.

JOHN VII. 16, 17.

My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God. . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 1.s

SERMON II.

THE WORK OF CHRIST IN ENGLAND.

NOV. 12, 1854.

ISAIAH XLIX. 23.

Kings shall be thy nursing fathers and their queens thy nursing mothers. . . p. 17.

[vi] SERMON III.

THE WORK OF CHRIST IN THE COLONIES

NOV. 19, 1854.

GENESIS XVII. 4.

My covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. . . . p. 35.

SERMON IV.

THE WORK OF CHRIST AMONG THE HEATHEN.

NOV. 26, 1854.

JOHN XVII. 21.

That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in three, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou has sent me. . . . . . . p. 53.

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