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That this volume may assist you in the right comprehension of our blessed Lord's Character, Pretensions, and Doctrines, and in the promotion of your own best interests, present and eternal, is the devout prayer of
Your affectionate Friend
and Faithful Servant,
GEORGE WRAY.
April, 1838.
CONTENTS.
SERMON I.
AN ANALYSIS OF THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS,
SHOWING THE DIVINITY OF JESUS AND HIS PROPITIATORY
CHARACTER.
HEBREWS i. 3.-" WHO BEING THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS GLORY,
AND THE EXPRESS IMAGE OF HIS PERSON, AND UPHOLDING
ALL THINGS BY THE WORD OF HIS POWER, WHEN HE HAD
BY HIMSELF PURGED OUR SINS, SAT DOWN ON THE RIGHT
HAND OF THE MAJESTY ON HIGH-”
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SERMON II.
PROPHECIES APPLICABLE TO JESUS ONLY.
ACTS x. 43.-"TO HIM GIVE ALL THE PROPHETS WITNESS,-"
SERMON III.
PROPHECIES APPLIED BY JESUS TO HIMSELF.
LUKE XXIV. 27.-" AND BEGINNING AT MOSES AND ALL THE
PROPHETS HE EXPOUNDED UNTO THEM IN ALL THE SCRIP-
TURES THE THINGS CONCERNING HIMSELF.'
SERMON IV.
PROPHECIES FULFILLED AT THE DEATH OF JESUS
INDEPENDENT OF HIMSELF.
MATTHEW Xxvi. 56.-" ALL THIS WAS DONE, THAT THE SCRIP-
TURES OF THE PROPHETS MIGHT BE FULFILLED.-
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SERMON V.
PROPHECIES RELATING TO THE TIME OF MESSIAH.
JOHN i. 45.-"-WE
HAVE FOUND HIM, OF WHOM MOSES IN
THE LAW, AND THE PROPHETS, DID WRITE, JESUS OF
NAZARETH, THE SON OF JOSEPH.
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SERMON VI.
TYPES OF CHRIST.
1 CORINTHIANS X. 3, 4.-"—AND DID ALL EAT THE SAME SPI-
RITUAL MEAT; AND DID ALL DRINK THE SAME SPIRITUAL
DRINK: FOR THEY DRANK OF THAT SPIRITUAL ROCK THAT
FOLLOWED THEM: AND THAT ROCK WAS CHRIST."
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SERMON VII.
MOSES' PROPHECY OF CHRIST.
DEUTERONOMY Xviii. 15.-" THE LORD THY GOD WILL RAISE
UP UNTO THEE A PROPHET FROM THE MIDST OF THEE, of
THY BRETHREN, LIKE UNTO ME; UNTO HIM YE SHALL
HEARKEN."
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SERMON VIII.
THE OFFICES OF THE MESSIAH FULFILLED IN JESUS OF
NAZARETH.
JOHN vii. 26. “DO THE RULERS KNOW INDEED THAT THIS IS
THE VERY CHRIST?"
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SERMON IX.
THE LINEAL DESCENT OF THE MESSIAH.
LUKE i. 69, 70.-"—AND HATH RAISED UP AN HORN OF SAL-
VATION FOR US IN THE HOUSE OF HIS SERVANT DAVID; AS
HE SPAKE BY THE MOUTH OF HIS HOLY PROPHETS, WHICH
HAVE BEEN SINCE THE WORLD BEGAN :"
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SERMON X.
THE OBJECTIONS TO OUR LORD'S PARENTAGE CONSIDERED.
JOHN vi. 42.-" AND THEY SAID, IS NOT THIS JESUS, THE SON
OF JOSEPH, WHOSE FATHER AND MOTHER WE KNOW? HOW
IS IT THEN THAT HE SAITH, I CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN?"
SERMON XI.
THE REASONS WHY OUR SAVIOUR WAS BORN A JEW.
1 PETER i. 18, 19.-" FORASMUCH AS YE KNOW THAT YE WERE
NOT REDEEMED WITH CORRUPTIBLE THINGS, AS SILVER AND
GOLD, FROM YOUR VAIN CONVERSATION RECEIVED BY TRA-
DITION FROM YOUR FATHERS; BUT WITH THE PRECIOUS
BLOOD OF CHRIST, AS OF A LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH AND
WITHOUT SPOT:"
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SERMON XII
THE EVIDENCE OF MIRACLES.
JOHN iii. 2.- “—RABBI, WE KNOW THAT THOU ART A TEACHER
COME FROM GOD: FOR NO MAN CAN DO THESE MIRACLES
THAT THOU DOEST, EXCEPT GOD BE WITH HIM."
SERMON XIII.
JOHN vii. 31.-" AND MANY OF THE PEOPLE BELIEVED ON HIM,
AND SAID, WHEN CHRIST COMETH, WILL HE DO MORE MIRA-
CLES THAN THESE WHICH THIS MAN HATH DONE?"
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SERMON XIV.
THE NATURE AND EFFICACY OF THE DEATH OF CHRIST.
1 PETER ji. 24.-" WHO HIS OWN SELF BARE OUR SINS IN HIS
OWN BODY ON THE TREE, THAT WE, BEING DEAD TO SINS,
SHOULD LIVE UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS BY WHOSE STRIPES YE
WERE HEALED."
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SERMON XV.
OUR LORD'S PREDICTION OF HIS DEATH.
MATTHEW XX. 18, 19.-" BEHOLD, WE GO UP TO JERUSALEM; AND
THE SON OF MAN SHALL BE BETRAYED UNTO THE CHIEF
PRIESTS AND UNTO THE SCRIBES, AND THEY SHALL CON-
DEMN HIM TO DEATH, AND SHALL DELIVER HIM TO THE
GENTILES TO MOCK, AND TO SCOURGE, AND TO CRUCIFY
HIM-
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SERMON XVI.
OUR LORD'S PREDICTION OF
CIPLES, AND OF HIS
THE DISPERSION OF HIS DIS-
MANIFESTATION OF HIMSELF IN
GALILEE AFTER HIS RESURRECTION.
MATTHEW XXvi. 31, 32.-" THEN SAITH JESUS UNTO THEM, ALL
YE SHALL BE OFFENDED BECAUSE OF ME THIS NIGHT: FOR
IT IS WRITTEN, I WILL SMITE THE SHEPHERD, AND THE
SHEEP OF THE FLOCK SHALL BE SCATTERED ABROAD. BUT
AFTER I AM RISEN AGAIN, I WILL GO BEFORE YOU INTO
GALILEE.
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SERMON XVII.
JESUS CHRIST THE GREAT HIGH PRIEST.
HEBREWS ix. 11, 12.-" CHRIST BEING COME AN HIGH PRIEST OF
GOOD THINGS TO COME, BY A GREATER AND MORE PERFECT
TABERNACLE, NOT MADE WITH HANDS, THAT IS TO SAY, NOT
OF THIS BUILDING; NEITHER BY THE BLOOD OF GOATS AND
CALVES, BUT BY HIS OWN BLOOD HE ENTERED IN ONCE
INTO THE HOLY PLACE, HAVING OBTAINED ETERNAL RE-
DEMPTION FOR US."
SERMON XVIII.
THE ATONEMENT.
1 CORINTHIANS XV. 3, 4.-" FOR I DELIVERED UNTO YOU FIRST
OF ALL THAT WHICH I ALSO RECEIVED, HOW THAT CHRIST
DIED FOR OUR SINS ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES; AND
THAT HE WAS BURIED, AND THAT HE ROSE AGAIN THE
THIRD DAY ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES:"