Nevertheless I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send And when He is come He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. Of sin, because they believe not on Me. PREACHED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY ON MONDAY IN WHITSUN WEEK, 1843. And this is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than Light, because For every one that doeth evil hateth the Light, neither cometh to the Light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the Light, that his At that day ye shall ask in My Name; and I say not unto you that I will pray the Father for you; for the Father SERMON I. PREACHED AT BARNSLEY, THE SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY, 1838. ROM. vi. 11. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. EVER since the fall of Adam, man had been in a state of darkness, unable to see what things were about him, unable to see himself as he really was. Man was created in the image of God, that he might be holy even as God is holy, and live with God for ever. Now no longer holy, he dared not look upon God, but tried to forget Him, or at least to forget His holiness, by thinking vain things of Him, and making false images of Him. It was known to the wiser heathens by old tradition that God was the true Father of all, and that men might hope to return to Him. It was known to the holy patriarchs that a Saviour was to come, to bring God's blessing to all nations, and to rule B them in righteousness. Yet the heathen nations well nigh forgot their traditions, and the chosen People were long ere they learned to remember the God of their fathers, and at last remembered Him not as indeed He is. They learned to say He was their God and their Father, yet they forgot the weightier matters of His law, and neither reckoned Him to be what indeed He is, nor themselves to be what indeed they were. The Prophets, John the Baptist, and finally our Blessed Lord, were constantly striving to bring them to a sense of what they were made for Whose they were-what they ought to be what they were losing by living to themselves and doing their own will. Yet they would not understand, but thought themselves free, while they were the servants of sin, because they had no relish for holiness, and the service of God. They were offended when our Lord promised that the truth should make them free, for they did not know what a thing it is to be free, and thought they were so already. Their mistake was twofold; they thought themselves better than they were, and that the more because they did not believe God's word telling them how much better they might be. We have been taught the truth, and have |