The Gospel a revelation of mercy to the guilty : a sermon, delivered in Charlotte Episcopal Chapel, on January 22, 1818; for the benefit of the Magdalene Asylum / By ... Reverend Gerard Noel.

  • Gerard Thomas Noel
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1818
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Credit: The Gospel a revelation of mercy to the guilty : a sermon, delivered in Charlotte Episcopal Chapel, on January 22, 1818; for the benefit of the Magdalene Asylum / By ... Reverend Gerard Noel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of good and evil will be erected. Mean time* alas! the delusion in question widely spreads; and all that class of actions which respect the immediate authority of God, are swept from observation. To take one, out of many illus¬ trations. It may not occur, for instance, to the judge of an earthly court, when passing sentence on some violator of the public peace, that the crime, for which that individual is about to suffer, merited condemnation, is per¬ haps a less crime, when referred to the Majes¬ ty of heaven, than many which have harbour in the judge’s own bosom. He descants, and he does this very justly, on the atrocious in¬ road made by the criminal on the happiness and security of his neighbour : but never once glances, it may be, in any time of reflection, at his own contempt of God’s authority; at his secret pride and irreligion ; at his awful rejec¬ tion of that method of mercy revealed to him by the Ruler of the universe ! How will the last judgment, my brethren, confound the pre¬ vious judgment of mankind ! How will charac¬ ters rise and sink, at that day, in direct oppo¬ sition to the opinions formerly entertained of their worth ! Many, in that day, who died
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