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NOTE BY TRANSLATOR.

THE Sermons contained in this Volume have been selected from the Fourth and Fifth Volumes of Dr Tholuck's published Discourses. They were originally delivered in the Academical Service at Halle, where Dr Tholuck is preacher to the University, to a Congregation composed of the Students of the University, together with a large promiscuous audience.

CONTENTS.

I. THE CROSS A REVEALER OF THE HEARTS OF MEN.

SERMON

I. THE APPEARANCE OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE FLESH IS THE

TEST WHICH TRIES AND BRINGS TO LIGHT WHAT IS IN

EVERY HUMAN HEART.-LUKE II. 34, 35,

II. THE HISTORY OF OUR SAVIOUR'S PASSION MAKES MANI-

FEST IN CAIAPHAS, TO WHAT A DEGREE THE HUMAN

HEART MAY HARDEN ITSELF AGAINST THE TRUTH.-

MATTHEW XIII. 14, 15, .

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III. THE HISTORY OF OUR SAVIOUR'S PASSION MAKES MANI-

FEST IN JUDAS, TO WHAT A DEGREE THE HUMAN HEART

MAY HARDEN ITSELF AGAINST THE TRUTH, AFTER

HAVING ONCE KNOWN THE WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.

2 PETER II. 20, 21,

IV. THE HISTORY OF OUR SAVIOUR'S PASSION REVEALS IN

PILATE, TO WHAT A DEGREE THE HUMAN HEART IS

CAPABLE OF SHALLOWNESS AND VANITY.-JOHN XVIII.

38,

V. THE HISTORY OF OUR SAVIOUR'S PASSION MAKES MANI-

FEST IN PETER, TO WHAT AN EXTENT THE HUMAN HEART

MAY WA VER IN ITS ATTACHMENT TO HIM IN WHOM IT

HAS CONFESSEDLY FOUND THE WORDS OF ETERNAL

LIFE. JOHN VI. 67-69; AND LUKE XXII. 60-62,

VI. THE HISTORY OF THE SAVIOUR'S DEATH AND RESURREC-

TION REVEALS IN MARY, THE MOTHER OF OUR LORD,

WHAT A HUMAN HEART MAY BECOME UNDER THE'

TRAINING OF GOD.-LUKE II. 34, 35,

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