HODGES, SMITH & CO., 104, GRAFTON STREET. HENRY GREENWOOD, 32, CASTLE STREET. 1858. 100.3.74. THESE SERMONS PRESENTED то THE ARE PARISHIONERS OF TRIM, AS A TOKEN OF THE AFFECTION OF THEIR OLD FRIEND AND PASTOR, HOLY COMMUNION. "For the bread of God is He which cometh down from Heaven and giveth life unto the world."-ST. JOHN, chap. vi. 33. THE discourse of our Blessed Lord, contained in John vi., is one of the most awful and exciting recorded by the Evangelists. It is about a matter on which we should long to know more—a matter on which unassisted human nature has ever toiled in vain to obtain certain and satisfactory knowledge; and which, now that Divine truth has spoken upon it, we seem to want faculties to comprehend. In this discourse our Lord speaks of the reconciliation of God to the soul of man, and of the union of man's soul with God. These are subjects which angels long to look into, and which men, until they are admitted into fellowship with angels, if even then, cannot hope adequately to understand. We are upon B |