against the praise of man, ❝m to remember some one thing which you could least bear to think of;" which he likens to "the sackcloth which they of old wore under the dress belonging to their station;" or when he tells people "" we must pray to God day by day that we may "-he does not say "love" but "fear Him more and more;" or that "the way to be forgiven and heard, is not merely to call yourself a miserable sinner before God, but, knowing yourself to be such, not to be put out, when others treat you as such;" or that "Pour ears do the devil's work, by listening to our own praises, and the blaming of others," or see his account of a Christian's nightly self-examination; or his long description of varied suffering, mental or bodily, of which he says that, "rbitter as they must be to the natural man, they are in the mouth of the believer as honey for sweetness, if he can but regard them as signs of his Lord's love, and also as means graciously allowed him, whereby to prove the sincerity of his own love;" or that saying, "Christ is always walking and discoursing in a spiritual inward way with us, as He was with the two disciples, though as yet our eyes, like theirs, are holden that we cannot know Him:" or that suffering from praise, which was such a characteristic of his; "Beware of single sins, beware of depending upon one another's praise, on one or two things which you seem to do remarkably well. Depend on nothing of the sort, but repent of all as well as you can; and let it be your great care to go down humbly to your grave;" or that other which was fulfilled too early for us on Good Friday 1866; "To know and feel the very truth of ourselves, that is humility; and humility will save our souls; for it will bring us to the feet of Christ and He will raise us up." CHRIST CHURCH, ADVENT, 1874. E. B. P. [The readers of these Sermons are indebted for this selection not to the writer of this advertisement but first, to the Author's nephew, the Rev. T. Keble, Jun., who entrusted them to him, and then to the Editor of some portion of the correspondence of John Keble, so long associated with him, the Rev. R. F. Wilson, under whose careful superintendence they were selected. Other series for Advent and the period from Christmas to Septuagesima will follow, it is hoped, towards the close of the ensuing year, and subsequently, if God permit, volumes for the Easter and Trinity season and for Saints' Days.] "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us: But if we confess our sins, He is faith- "And Joshua said unto Achan, My son give glory, I pray thee, to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession unto Him: and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me. And Achan answered Joshua, and said, indeed |