UNSEARCHABLE RICHES OF CHRIST. A SERMON PREACHED IN THE CHAPEL OF FARNHAM CASTLE, AT THE GENERAL ORDINATION HELD BY THE LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, JULY 9, 1848. BY THE REV. JAMES HALDANE STEWART, M.A. RECTOR OF LIMPSFIELD, SURREY. PUBLISHED BY REQUEST. LONDON: J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY; SEELEYS, FLEET ST.; AND NISBET, BERNERS ST. ΤΟ THE RIGHT REVEREND CHARLES RICHARD LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, This Sermon PUBLISHED AT HIS LORDSHIP'S DESIRE AND AT THE UNITED REQUEST OF THE PRIESTS AND DEACONS ADMITTED TO HOLY ORDERS, AND THE CLERGY PRESENT AT THE ORDINATION, IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED: WITH AN EARNEST PRAYER THAT THE GREAT HEAD OF THE CHURCH MAY GRACIOUSLY ACCOMPANY IT WITH A VERY ABUNDANT BLESSING. By the same Author. TRUE HAPPINESS, exemplified in a course of Lectures upon the Fifty-fifth chapter of Isaiah. Price 5s. THE FAMILY WHICH JESUS LOVED, or the History of Martha, Mary, and Lazarus. Second Edition, price 68. A PRACTICAL VIEW of the REDEEMER'S ADVENT. Fourth Edition, price 10s. 6d. SERMONS, principally designed to strengthen the faith, and increase the devotedness of Christians. Second Edition, price 10s. 6d. A SELECTION of PSALMS and HYMNS, adapted to the Services of the Church and to private devotion, 32mo. Thirteenth Edition, price 2s. bound in sheep. A SERMON, &.c. EPHESIANS iii. 8. "Unto me who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ." An ancient writer terms the apostle Paul "the cloud of God." For by him the God of all goodness sends forth those glorious truths which, like flashes of lightning, astonish and enlighten the soul. Like the cloud also, which, after the lightning has flashed and the thunder has rolled, drops down its benignant showers to soften, refresh, and fertilize the earth,-so this inspired apostle is made the medium of imparting the most cheering and consolatory truths to the heart. |