Horace Bushnell

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21.) Christ and the Salvation 21 - HEAVEN OPENED.
      "And he saith unto him-Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."-John i, 31. With a singular felicity and power of statement, Mr. Coleridge gives it for his doctrine of scripture inspiration-"In the Bible there is more that finds me, than I have experien ...read more

22.) Sermons for the New Life 1 - EVERY MAN'S LIFE A PLAN OF GOD
      Isaiah xlv. 5.-"I girded thee, though thou hast not known me," So beautiful is the character and history of Cyrus, the person here addressed, that many have doubted whether the sketch given by Xenophon was not intended as an idealizing, or merely romantic picture. And yet, there have been examples of as great beauty unfolded, here and there, in ...read more

23.) Sermons for the New Life 2 - THE SPIRIT IN MAN
      Job xxxii. 8.-"But there is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding." IT is something great in man, as the speaker, Elihu, conceives, that he is spirit, and, as being such, is capable of being inspired. For he is not, as some commentators appear to suppose, re-publishing here, the historical fact, that the ...read more

24.) Sermons for the New Life 3 - DIGNITY OF HUMAN NATURE SHOWN FROM ITS RUINS
      Romans iii., 13-18.-"Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips. Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in their ways. And the way of peace they have not known. There is no ear of God before their eyes." ...read more

25.) Sermons for the New Life 4 - THE HUNGER OF THE SOUL
      Luke xv. 17.-"And when he came to himself he said, flow many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger." THIS gentleman's son that was, and is now a swine-herd, brings his meditation to a most natural and fit conclusion. His low occupation, and the husks on which he has been feeding to save his life, ...read more

26.) Sermons for the New Life 5 - THE REASON OF FAITH
      John vi. 36.-"But I said unto you, That ye also hail seen me and believe not." IT is the grand distinction of Christianity, that by which it is separated from all philosophies and schemes of mere ethics, that it makes its appeal to faith and upon that, as a fundamental condition, rests the promise of salvation. It is called the word of faith, th ...read more

27.) Sermons for the New Life 6 - REGENERATION
      John iii. 3.-"Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God." THIS very peculiar expression, born again, is a phrase that was generated historically in the political state, then taken up by Christ, and appropriated figuratively to the spiritual use in which we find ...read more

28.) Sermons for the New Life 7 - THE PERSONAL LOVE AND LEAD OF CHRIST
      John x. 3.-"And he calleth his own sheep by name and leadeth them out." IN this parable, Christ is a shepherd, and his people are his flock. And two points, on which the beauty and significance of the parable principally turn, are referred to in the text, which might not be distinctly observed by one who is not acquainted with the peculiar manne ...read more

29.) Sermons for the New Life 8 - LIGHT ON THE CLOUD
      Job xxxvii. 21.-"And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and clanseth them." THE argument is, let man be silent when God is dealing with him; for he can not fathom God's inscrutable wisdom. Behold, God is great, and we know him not. God thundereth marvelously with his voice: great things doeth he which ...read more

30.) Sermons for the New Life 9 - THE CAPACITY OF RELIGION EXTIRPATED BY DISUSE
      Matthew xxv. 28.-"Take, therefore, the talent from him." MANY persons read this parable of the talents, I believe, very much as if it related only to gifts external to the person; or, if to gifts that are personal, to such only as are called talents, in the lower and merely man-ward relations and uses of life; such as the understanding, reason, ...read more

31.) Sermons for the New Life 10 - UNCONSCIOUS INFLUENCE
      John xx. 8.-"Then went in also that other disciple." IN this slight touch or turn of history, is opened to iis if we scan it closely, one of the most serious and fruitful chapters of Christian doctrine. Thus it is that men are ever touching unconsciously the springs of motion in each other; thus it is that one man, without thought or intention, ...read more

32.) Sermons for the New Life 11 - OBLIGATION A PRIVILEGE
      Psalms cxix. 54.-"Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage." WHEN the eastern traveler takes shelter from the scorching heat of noon, or halts for the night, in some inn or caravansary, which is, for the time, the house of his pilgrimage, he takes the sackbut or the lyre and sooths his rest with a song-a song it may be of wa ...read more

33.) Sermons for the New Life 12 - HAPPINESS AND JOY
      John xv. 11.-"These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full." CHRIST enters the world, bringing joy;-Good tidings of great joy, cry the angels, which shall be to all people. So now he leaves it, bestowing his gospel as a gift of joy,-These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might re ...read more

34.) Sermons for the New Life 13 - THE TRUE PROBLEM OF CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE
      Revelations ii. 4.-"Nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love." THERE are some texts of scripture that suffer a much harder lot than any of the martyrs, because their martyrdom is perpetual; and this I think is one of the number. Two classes appear to concur in destroying its dignity; viz., the class who d ...read more

35.) Sermons for the New Life 14 - THE LOST PURITY RESTORED
      1 John, iii. 3.-"And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure." THIS hope, as the apostle is speaking, is a hope to be with Christ; and as Christ is, in highest verity, the manifestation of God who is infinite purity, it is a hope to be concomitant with purity, the purity of Christ and of God; which again is but ...read more

36.) Sermons for the New Life 15 - LIVING TO GOD IN SMALL THINGS
      Luke xvi. 10.-"He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in much; and he that is unjust in the least, is unjust also in much." A READINESS to do some great thing is not peculiar to Naaman the Syrian. There are many Christians who can never find a place large enough to do their duty. They must needs strain after great changes, ...read more

37.) Sermons for the New Life 16 - THE POWER OF AN ENDLESS LIFE
      Heb. vii. 16.-Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. THIS word after is a word of correspondence, and im. plies two subjects brought in comparison. That Christ has the power of an endless life in his own person is certainly true; but to say that he is made a priest after this power subject ...read more

38.) Sermons for the New Life 17 - RESPECTABLE SIN
      John viii. 9.-"And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out, one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last, and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst." IT is with sins as with men or families, some have pedigree and some have not; for there are kinds and modes of sin that have, in all a ...read more

39.) Sermons for the New Life 18 - THE POWER OF GOD IN SELF-SACRIFICE
      1 Cor. i. 24.-"Christ the power of God." THE cross and Christ crucified are the subject here in hand. Accordingly, when Christ is called the power of God, we are to understand Christ crucified; and then the problem is to conceive how Christ, dying in the weakness of mortality and exhibiting, just there, if we take him as the incarnate manifestat ...read more