So the bad passions and tempers, instead of
being merely put to sleep for a while to wake up all the stronger
for their rest, will be really mortified and killed in you. They
will die out of you; and you, the real _you_ whom God made, will
live and grow continually. And, instead of having your character
dragged down, diseased, and at last ruined, it will rise and
progress, as you grow older, in the sure and safe road of eternal
life. To which God bring us all in his mercy! Amen.
SERMON XXIV. THE UNRIGHTEOUS MAMMON
(Ninth Sunday after Trinity.)
Luke xvi. 1-8. And he said also unto his disciples, There was a
certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto
him that he had wasted his goods. And he called him, and said unto
him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy
stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward. Then the steward
said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from
me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. I am
resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship,
they may receive me into their houses. So he called every one of
his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest
thou unto my lord? And he said, An hundred measures of oil.
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