DISCOURSES. DISCOURSE I. THE TRUE LIGHT. JOHN I. 9. THAT WAS THE TRUE LIGHT, WHICH LIGHTETH EVERY MAN THAT COMETH INTO THE WORLD. The birth of a Saviour was an event of infinite im portance to the world. You have heard this a great many times; but it is fitting that I should repeat it now that I should ask you to consider it in this hallowed hour.* Though you may have thought of it hundreds of times, you have not compassed, you have not fathomed its import; you have not weighed, you have not comprehended its results. In your profoundest contemplations you may partly understand its meaning, and attain more than a glimpse of the great end to which it points; but you cannot take in the whole scope of its power; you cannot tell the limits of its outflowing benefits; you cannot measure all its manifold, grand, or beneficent consequences. *Preached on occasion of Christmas. |