PREACHED BEFORE THE HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF LINCOLN'S INN, FROM THE YEAR 1812 TO THE YEAR 1919, BY WILLIAM VAN MILDERT, D. D. PREACHER OF LINCOLN'S INN, NOW BISHOP OF DURHAM. 1831. VOL. II. OXFORD, PRINTED BY S. COLLINGWOOD, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY, FOR THE AUTHOR ; FLEET STREET, LONDON. MDCCCXXXI. CONTENTS Cautions against being ashamed of Chris- tianity. ears, for they hear. For, verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous men have de- sired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them. Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wil- derness, to be tempted of the Devil. And after six days, Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them into an Parable of the Unjust Steward. And the Lord commended the unjust steward, be- cause he had done wisely; for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unright- to be a Christian. SERMON XI. St. Paul at Athens. ACTs xvii. 22, 23. Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To the UNKNOWN God. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, Him de- clare I unto you. |