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Students, you are, "not a whit behind the chiefest among them;" but that even in the things wherein they most value themselves, "the righteous is more excellent than his neighbour."*

*Prov. xii. 26.

Christ Crucified.

A

SERMON

PREACHED BEFORE

THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE,

ON SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 1811.

BY THE

REV. CHARLES SIMEON, M. A.

FELLOW OF KING'S COLLEGE.

A

SERMON,

&c. &c.

1 COR. II. 2.

I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ and him crucified.

IN different ages of the world it has pleased God to reveal himself to men in different ways, sometimes by visions, sometimes by voices, sometimes by suggestions of his Spirit to their minds: but since the completion of the sacred canon, he has principally made use of his written word, explained and enforced by men whom he has called and qualified to preach his gospel. And though he has not precluded himself from conveying again the knowledge of his will in any of the former ways, it is through the written word only that we are now authorized to expect

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