Thought for the Day 6 March 2009

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Categorised as Thought of the Day and published Friday, March 6th, 2009
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We may learn what is the peculiar gift of the [Holy] Spirit … by considering the Christian moral code as a whole, and the general impression which it would make on minds which had been instructed in nothing beyond the ordinary morality which nature teaches. Such are the following passages—we are bid not to resist evil, but to turn the cheek to the smiter; to forgive from our hearts our brother, though he sin against us unto seventy times seven; to love and bless our enemies … to esteem others better than ourselves.

From the University sermon ‘Evangelical Sanctity the Completion of Natural Virtue’ (1831) Click here for the full text (leaves site)