The Christian Life: Its Course, Its Hindrances, and Its Helps.

by Thomas Arnold, D.D, Head Master of Rugby School, and Late Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.

From the Fifth London Edition.
1856.

“As far as the principle on which Archbishop Laud and his followers acted went to re-actuate the idea of the church, as a co-ordinate and living power by right of Christ’s institution and express promise, I go along with them; but I soon discover that by the church they meant the clergy, the hierarchy exclusively, and then I fly off from them in a tangent.

“For it is this very interpretation of the church, that, according to my conviction, constituted the first and fundamental apostasy; and I hold it for one of the greatest mistakes of our polemical divines, in their controversies with the Romanists, that they trace all the corruptions of the gospel faith to the Papacy.”–COLERIDGE,

Literary Remains, vol. iii. p. 386.

This is a book of 30+ sermons on different aspects of the Christian life.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

LECTURE I.

GEN. 3:22.–And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil.

LECTURE II.

1 COR. 13:11.–When I was a child I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

LECTURE III.

1 COR. 13:11.–When I was a child I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

LECTURE IV.

COL. 1. 9.–We do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

LECTURE V.

COL. 1. 9.–We do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

LECTURE VI.

COL. 3:3.–Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

LECTURE VII.

1 COR. 3:21–23.–All things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours, and ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.

LECTURE VIII.

GAL. 5:16, 17.–Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

LECTURE IX.

LUKE 14:33.–Whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.

LECTURE X.

1 TIM. 1. 9.–The law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane.

LECTURE XI.

LUKE 21:36.–Watch ye, therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.

LECTURE XII.

PROV. 1. 28.–Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer: they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me.

LECTURE XIII.

MARK 12:34.–Thou art not far from the kingdom of God.

LECTURE XIV.

MATT. 22:14.–For many are called, but few are chosen.

LECTURE XV.

LUKE 11:25.–When he cometh he findeth it swept and garnished.

JOHN 5:42.–I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.

LECTURE XVI.

MATT. 11:10.–I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.

LECTURE XVII.

1 COR. 2:12.–We have received not the Spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God.

LECTURE XVIII.

GEN. 27:38.–And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.

MATT. 15:27.–And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master’s table.

LECTURE XIX.

MATT. 22:32.–God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

LECTURE XX.

EZEK. 13:22.–With lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life.

LECTURE XXI.

ADVENT SUNDAY.

HEB. 3:16.–For some when they had heard did provoke; howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

LECTURE XXII.

CHRISTMAS DAY.

JOHN 1. 10.–He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

LECTURE XXIII.

SUNDAY NEXT BEFORE EASTER.

MATT. 26:40, 41.–What, could ye not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

LECTURE XXIV.

GOOD FRIDAY.

ROMANS 5:8.–God commendeth his love towards us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

LECTURE XXV.

EASTER DAY.

JOHN 20:20.–Then the disciples went away again unto their own home.

LECTURE XXVI.

WHITSUNDAY.

ACTS 19:2.–Have you received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?

LECTURE XXVII.

TRINITY SUNDAY.

JOHN 3:9.–How can these things be?

LECTURE XXVIII.

EXOD. 3:6.–And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.

LUKE 23:30.–Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.

LECTURE XXIX.

PSALM 137:4.— How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?

LECTURE XXX.

1 COR. 11:26.–For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord’s death till he come.

LECTURE XXXI.

LUKE 1. 3, 4.–It seemed good to me, also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed.

LECTURE XXXII.

Luke 1. 3, 4.–It seemed good to me, also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed.

LECTURE XXXIII.

JOHN 9:29.–We know that God spake unto Moses; as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.

LECTURE XXXIV.

1 COR. 14:20.–Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit, in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

LECTURE XXXV.

MATT. 26:45, 46.–Sleep on now and take your rest; behold the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us be going: behold he is at hand that doth betray me.

LECTURE XXXVI.

2 COR. 5:17, 18.–Old things are passed away; behold all things are become new, and all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ.

LECTURE XXXVII.

EZEK. 20:49.–Then said I, Ah, Lord God! they say of me Doth he not speak parables?

LECTURE XXXVIII.

ISAIAH 5:1.–Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard.

LECTURE XXXIX.

COL. 3:17.–Whatsoever ye do in the word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him.

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