CHICA THE LIBRAMES COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN M. MASON, D.D. IN FOUR VOLUMES. EDITED BY HIS SON, EBENEZER MASON. VOL. III. NEW YORK: BAKER AND SCRIBNER, 145 NASSAU STREET AND 36 PARK ROW. 1849. BX 8915 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by EBENEZER MASON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. C. W. BENEDICT, Stereotyper, 201 William street, cor. of Frankfort. SERMON I. THE GOSPEL FOR THE POOR. LUKE VII. 22. To the Poor the Gospel is Preached. THE Old Testament closes with a remarkable prediction concerning Messiah and his forerunner. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. Accordingly, at the appointed time, came John the Baptist, in the spirit and power of Elias, saying, Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. In his great work of preparing the way of the Lord, he challenged sin without respect of persons. The attempt was hazardous; but, feeling the majesty of his character, he was not to be moved by considerations which divert or intimidate the ordinary man. Name, sect, station, were alike to him. |