Sermons Preached in Westminster Abbey (Classic Reprint)

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And first: The night is far spent; the day is at hand. What is here meant by the night It can only be the time of the world's darkness and ignorance, when men walked in darkness and knew not whither they were going; when they did deeds of darkness, unreproved by one another and at length, being past feeling, unreproved even of their own consciences. But with Christ's first coming this thickest darkness was no more the day-spring broke. It was not, it is not yet, the full day. That will not be till his second glorious appearing. But the Whole time between his first coming and his second may be looked at as the dawn, the daybreak light still struggling with dark ness, the darkness only slowly receding, but yet ever receding retreating step by step, and pierced through and through as it retreats by the glittering shafts of the true King of day. The night is far spent even in his own time the Apostle could say this. The long weary night when heathen idolatry and Jewish superstition well-nigh divided the world, was coming to a close. Of the four worldly kingdoms, so fitly typified by the four ravening beasts which Daniel saw coming up out of the sea, three had already passed away; and the fourth, the fiercest of all, strong ex ceedingly as to the eye of sense it still appeared.

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