The works of Richard Hurd, volume 7 (of 8)

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Felix then had his preacher within call for _two whole years_: time sufficient, one would think, to afford the opportunity of many a lecture _concerning the faith of Christ_. Ye...

To this divine Spirit, then, _the spirit of the Father_[48], and _the spirit of the Son_[49], as he is equally styled, because proceeding from both; to this spirit, I say, _enli...

This last clause is by no means an insignificant one; as ye will see by recollecting, that the true temper of a Christian is, hope mixed with fear; _hope_, to animate his courag...

Here, again, the general sense of mankind runs another way. For, if it be so clear, that repentance alone has this virtue, how came the idea of atonement and expiation into the...

On whatever foundation a man chuses to build his moral system, he easily convinces himself of the worth and excellence of moral action. The reasonableness, the utility, and the...

That a divine person, divine in the highest sense of the word, should descend from heaven and take our nature upon him; _the Heir of all things_[112] should be content to appear...

1. All the notices, which it had pleased God to give to the ancient Jews of the Gospel dispensation, were conveyed in this way of Parable. The terms, employed in the old prophec...

Men have a strange notion, that when God intends to convince any one by the evidence of miracles, he should repeat and enforce that evidence, till it take effect, whether we wil...

We have a memorable instance, in the Text. Among other marks, by which it pleased our blessed Lord to authenticate his mission, one was, _That the Poor had the Gospel preached u...

_In my Father’s house_, says he, _are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you_. And can we doubt his sincerity in this declaration, when he was now to make an ex...

It would be equally an abuse of your patience, and an affront to your good sense, to enlarge farther on so plain a point. From recollecting, and laying together, the circumstanc...

Yet, if we turn our thoughts on the other tribes and cities of that nation, on the inhabitants of Judæa, and even of Jerusalem, we shall find, that they reasoned no better than...

For do we not see that we all of us depend in a great measure, for the virtue and happiness we possess, on the conduct of others? Can we look about us, and not perceive an order...

In this state of things (a very alarming one, in all views) nothing threatens the utter ruin of the little virtue, that is left among us, so much, as the general persuasion, tha...

They, therefore, who pretend that the world cannot be kept in order, but by resentment and revenge, will do well to make trial of the opposite conduct, before they have recourse...

It would be paying too much respect to this frivolous delicacy, to enter into a formal confutation of it. What I shall say to it is, briefly, this; first, that the style of scri...

Yet, in the face of all these perils, our Lord predicts, in the most direct and positive terms, that his church should brave them all, and subsist for ever. It has subsisted to...

Thus stands the history itself: And the light in which it is commonly understood, is this; “That Jesus, in virtue of his prophetic, or, if you will, _regal_ character, did this...

I have before acknowledged, that a _secondary_ purpose of this transaction might be, to give the Jews to understand, how culpable they had been in permitting even a lawful traff...

[94] “What this or that philosopher delivered, was but a saying of his. Mankind might hearken to it, or reject it, as they pleased; or, as it suited their interest, passions, pr...