Sermons Preached at Stepney Green Tabernacle

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: mn enmcle SERMON TO YOUNG MEN. Deliveked On Lobd's-ay Eveking, Februaky 14, 1869, By ARCHIBALD G. BROWN, AT STEPNEY GREEN TABERNACLE. " Bun, speak to this young man."?Zecharuh 2?4. This young man was the prophet Zechariah, who in early life had his lips touched with a live coal from off the altar, and on whom in youth the spirit of'prophecy descended. He lived at the time when the captivity was drawing near its close, and the chief burden of his eloquence was encouragement to the Jews to rebuild Jerusalem and the temple. In the verses preceding the text we are told that he was in conversation with an angel; whom he describes "as the angel that talked with him." Whilst thus engaged he lifted up his eyes and saw another angel in the form of a man, with a measuring line in his hand. There can, I think, be little doubt but that this second angel was none other than the Lord Jehovah Jesus, " the angel of the covenant," who with his measuring line of sovereign grace, marks out and prescribes the exact limits of his church, which is the spiritual Jerusalem. The angel in converse with the prophet hastens forth to meet his Lord, and receives the following mandate, " Run, speak to this young man," and then words are given him to say. Let us this evening leave the context, and only dwell upon the command. Zechariah is not the only young man that needs speaking to; nor is an angel the only one permitted to carry the message. Certain I am of this that I am no angel, although I trust some day to mingle with the shining band; and equally certain am I that the Lord has said to me to-night, "Run, speak to this young man." It was a message sent on a special occasion to a specified young man, and in this light we intend to view it. And is not this a special occ...

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