THE NEW LIFE

BY HORACE BUSHNELL, D.D.

AUTHOR OF "THE VICARIOUS SACRIFICE

Anchora Snai

ALEXANDER STRAHAN, PUBLISHER
LONDON AND NEW YORK

1866

MAY 23 1823
CK
B96

CONTENTS.

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EVERY MAN'S LIFE A PLAN OF GOD.

ISAIAH xlv. 5—“I girded thee, though thou hast not known me,"

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II.

DIGNITY OF HUMAN NATURE SHEWN 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 bitter-

ness: their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and

misery are in their ways: and the way of peace have they not

known: there is no fear of God before their eyes,"

III.

THE HUNGER OF THE SOUL.

LUKE XV. 17-"And when he came to himself, he said, How many

hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare,

and I perish with hunger!"

IV.

THE REASON OF FAITH.

JOHN vi. 36-"But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me,

V.

REGENERATION.

JOHN iii. 3-" Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I

say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the

kingdom of God,"

VI.

THE PERSONAL LOVE AND LEAD OF CHRIST.

JOHN X. 3-" And He calleth His own sheep by name, and leadeth

them out,"

VII.

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 cleanseth them,"

VIII.

THE CAPACITY OF RELIGION EXTIRPATED BY DISUSE.

MATTHEW XXV. 28—" Take therefore the talent from him,"

IX.

UNCONSCIOUS INFLUENCE.

JOHN XX. 8--" Then went in also that other disciple," .

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OBLIGATION A PRIVILEGE.

PSALM CXix. 54—" Thy statutes have been my songs in the house

of my pilgrimage,"

XI.

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,"

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XII.

THE TRUE PROBLEM OF CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE.

REVELATION ii. 4—"Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee,

because thou hast left thy first love,"

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XIII.

THE LOST PURITY RESTORED.

1 JOHN iii. 3—" And every man that hath this hope in him puri-

fieth himself, even as He is pure," .

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XIV.

LIVING TO GOD IN SMALL THINGS.

LUKE xvi. 10-"He that is faithful in that which is least is faith-

ful also in much; and he that is unjust in the least is unjust

also in much,"

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XV.

THE POWER OF AN ENDLESS LIFE.

HEBREWS vii. 16-"Who is made, not after the law of a carnal

commandment, but after the power of an endless life,"

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XVI.

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,"

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XVII.

THE POWER OF GOD IN SELF-SACRIFICE.

1 CORINTHIANS i. 24-" Christ the power of God,"

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