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to his commands, and acknowledging his authority.

The second question contains the words of our Lord himself; "If ye call me Master and Lord, Why do ye not the things which I say?"

This is a loud call upon our practice. May it reach each of our hearts! May we be more watchful and circumspect, since we are the disciples of so holy a Master! And may God assist us by his Holy Spirit, steadily to perform all the commands of our Lord!

Amen.

SERMON XXVII.

RAISING THE WIDOW'S SON.

And when he came near the gate of the city, behold there was a young man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and much people of the city was with her. LUKE vii. 12.

WE are now to consider the third of our Saviour's miracles, to which, in the present series of discourses, your attention has been directed. You will perceive, that, in their selection, I have been guided by one principal idea, namely, that they should be totally distinct from each other. You have seen a paralytic restored to soundness, a multitude fed with a few small loaves and fishes, and we are now to contemplate a yet greater display of divine power, in the restoration of a dead man to life.

When I discoursed to you a twelvemonth ago, upon the parables of our Lord, I gave you a list of the principal of them, in the order in which they were delivered. I shall now give a summary of his principal miracles; dividing them into six classes, for the help of memory.

The first class I shall mention, are those which relate to human sustenance. These are five in number.

His turning water into wine at the marriage in Cana.

Twice procuring an extraordinary draught of fishes.

Twice feeding many thousands with a few small loaves.

The next class relates to his curing diseases. Here we may enumerate,

The nobleman's son.
Peter's wife's mother.

A centurion's servant.

The sick man at the pool of Bethesda. And the daughter of the Syro-Phoenician woman, whose pathetic expostulation with our Lord has not its equal in the gospel history.

The third class I call demonaical, that is, cures performed on demoniacs.

I am aware that many would place this under the last division, but the circumstance of their having alone given rise to many volumes of inquiry and warm debate, renders them, in my opinion, deserving a distinct classification.

Here you will recollect the man calling himself Legion.

And the two miserable wretches who wandered about without habitation, save in the caverns of death.

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A fourth class comprises the removal of various infirmities. You will perceive my meaning by the instances I shall select.

We read of a man who was born blind, to whom he restored sight.

Of another, whose right hand was withered, and by his divine power, it was instantly made whole.

Of one leper whom he healed singly, and of ten whom he cured together.

Of a woman, who, for eighteen years, had been subject to an infirmity, which, by the energy of his word, was instantly removed.

Of a paralytic, the use of whose limbs he restored.

Repeatedly we read of his causing the dumb to speak, the deaf to hear, and the maimed he made whole.

Dr. Harwood, in his dissertation upon miracles, gives a sense to the word maimed, which is, I think, peculiarly appropriate;he styles it a deficiency in any limb. Thus our Lord not only restored to sight those who, from any accident, had been deprived of that faculty, but caused him who was born blind to enjoy the light. He not merely enabled sounds again to reach the ears of the deaf, but restored to Malchus the very organ of hearing.

The fifth class I shall name, are those miracles which were performed upon inanimate objects.

He cursed the barren fig tree.

When tribute was demanded of him, he caused the money to be found in the mouth of a fish.

He walked on the ocean.

And once, when fatigued by the labours of the day, he had sunk to sleep, while the ship into which he had entered was nearly overwhelmed by a violent storm; upon his disciples suddenly awaking him, he, in a

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