Sermons On the Sabbath-Day: On the Character of the Warrior, And On the ...
Sermons On the Sabbath-Day: On the Character of the Warrior, And On the ...
Frederick Denison Maurice
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There is none which has Digitized by VjOOQIC 76 THB CRYSTAL PALACS. [sERM. more need to ponder tliat wliieh was doing in the green tree from which the life and sap had not yet departed ; that which He said should be done in the dry after it had separated itself from Him^ its divine root. While He was with them^ they used all the institutions which God had given them to be witnesses of their common King and Deliverer^ as arguments for rejecting Him. When they had cast Him out^ saying ' this is t...he heir^ let us kill him that the inheritance may be ours/ they dung to the Sabbath-days, to every thing which reminded them that they had formed a divine commonwealth. But they had lost the centre of it. It was not a commonwealth. They had no bond to each other, for they had no bond to God. And then was the long-delayed sen* tence upon that ancient tree fulfilled — ^Cut it down. Why cumbereth it the ground ?' Brethren, it is not by raising clamours about the Sabbath-day, or about the authority of the Bible, that we can avert this sentence.
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