RAYERS, 5/834 $3,5mm/834 SERMONS AND PRAYERS, DELIVERED BY JOSEPH JOHN GURNEY, IN THE FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE, Liverpool, 1832. SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS. LIVERPOOL; THOMAS HODGSON, SOUTH JOHN-STREET. WHITTAKER, TREACHER, and co. 1 Great pains have been taken to ensure the fidelity of the The last three Prayers were delivered in places of temporary SERMON I. DELIVERED AT A PUBLIC MEETING, 5ти MONTH 6тн, 1832. WHEN Our Lord Jesus Christ was drawing towards the close of his ministry, and when he was about to ascend into that glory from which he came, and wherein he was with the Father before the world was, he appeared to his disciples on the mountain, at the place appointed in Galilee, which had been very much the scene of his labours in the ministry of the gospel, (for he was himself the prince of prophets;) and he said to them, when they were assembled together, "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.” He therefore proclaimed his own supreme authority over all things, visible and invisible, under the Father, who gave him all authority, as the glorious Mediator between God and man, in whom was the nature of the unchangeable God, and who had taken upon him the nature of man, but without sin. "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth;" and then followed his final commission, "Go ye, and teach all nations," (or make disciples of all B |