SERMONS
ON
IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
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BY REV. C. G. FINNEY.
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NEW-YORK
PUBLISHED
BY JOHN S. TAYLOR,
THEOLOGICAL
AND SUNDAY SCHOOL BOOKSELLER,
Brick
Church Chapel, corner of Park Row and Nassau-street,
opposite
the City Hall.
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D.
PANSHAW, PRINTER.
The only source
for these lectures came from the printed book SERMONS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS by
Charles Finney. This is 100% Finney with no deletions or additions.
CONTENTS.
SERMON I.
Sinners bound to
change their own hearts.--Ezek. 18-31.--"Make you a new heart, and a new
spirit, for why will ye die?"
SERMON II.
How to change your
heart.--Ezek. 18-31.--"Make you a new heart, and a new spirit, for why
will ye die?"
SERMON III.
Traditions
of the Elders.--Matthew, 15-6.-"Thus have ye made the commandment of God
of none effect, by your tradition."
SERMON IV.
Total
Depravity.--John, 15:42--"But I know you, that ye have not the love of God
in you."
SERMON V.
Total
Depravity. --Romans, 6:7.--"The carnal mind is enmity against God, for it
is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be."
SERMON VI.
Why
Sinners hate God.--John, 15:25.--"They have hated me without a
cause."
SERMON VII.
God
cannot please Sinners.-- Luke, 7:31-35--"And the Lord said, Whereunto then
shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like? They are
like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and
saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you,
and ye have not wept. For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor
drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil. The Son of man is come eating and
drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of
publicans and sinners! But wisdom is justified of all her children."
SERMON VIII.
Christian
Affinity.--Amos, 3:3--"Can two walk together except they be agreed?"
SERMON IX.
Stewardship.--Luke,
16:2--"Give an account of thy stewardship."
SERMON X.
Doctrine
of Election.--Ephesians, 1:45.--"According as he hath chosen us in him
before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame
before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by
Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will."
SERMON XI.
Reproation.--Jeremiah,
6:30.--"Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the lord hath
rejected them."
SERMON XII.
Love of the
World.-- I John, 2:15.--"Love not the world, neither the things that are
in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in
him."