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Title: The Life of Duty, v. 2
A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles

Author: H. J. Wilmot-Buxton

Release Date: July 15, 2007 [EBook #22075]

Language: English

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The Life of Duty

A YEAR'S PLAIN SERMONS

ON THE

GOSPELS OR EPISTLES.

VOL. II.

TRINITY TO ADVENT.

BY

H. J. WILMOT-BUXTON, M.A.,

VICAR OF S. GILES-IN-THE-WOOD, N. DEVON.

AUTHOR OF
"SUNDAY SERMONETTES FOR A YEAR."
"MISSION SERMONS."
"THE LIFE WORTH LIVING AND OTHER PLAIN SERMONS."
"THE CHILDREN'S BREAD A SERIES OF SHORT SERMONS FOR CHILDREN."
"THE LORD'S SONG SERMONS ON HYMNS," ETC.

Sixth Edition.

London:

SKEFFINGTON & SON, PICCADILLY, W.,

PUBLISHERS TO H.M. THE QUEEN AND TO H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES.

1898.

TO

MY DEAR MOTHER,

MY EARLIEST
AND
BEST TEACHER AND GUIDE,
THESE SERMONS
ARE
DEDICATED.

Contents.

THE OPEN DOOR (_Trinity Sunday_)
REV. iv. 1.
"A door was opened in Heaven."

THE CONTRAST (_First Sunday after Trinity_)
S. LUKE xvi. 19, 20.
"There was a certain rich man, . . . and there was a certain
beggar named Lazarus."

THE WAY OF LIFE (_Second Sunday after Trinity_)
1 JOHN iii. 14.
"We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we
love the brethren."

MAN'S LIFE HIS MONUMENT (_Third Sunday after Trinity_)
1 S. PETER v. 10.
"The God of all grace . . . make you perfect, stablish,
strengthen, settle you."

THE BLESSING OF MERCY (_Fourth Sunday after Trinity_)
S. LUKE vi. 36.
"Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful."

THE WORDS OF OUR LIPS (_Fifth Sunday after Trinity_)
1 S. PETER iii. 10.
"For he that will love life, and see good days,
let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips
that they speak no guile."

ALIVE UNTO GOD (_Sixth Sunday after Trinity_)
ROMANS vi. 11.
"Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead
indeed unto sin, but alive unto God