Humanity and God
Overview
Samuel Chadwick writes in the preface of this volume that he was sitting with preacher friends one evening when some of them reproached him for not having published a volume of sermons. He responded in an offhand way that he would not do that unless he received “an unsolicited request from Hodder and Stoughton.” The next day, without knowledge of this conversation, Hodder and Stoughton contacted him to request a collection of sermons. “There was only one answer possible,” writes Chadwick. The result is this collection of 17 sermons preached during his ministry and ranging in topic from “Humanity and God” to “The Christian Benediction.”
Top Highlights
“The promise of perfection marks the climax of an ethical development which assumes discipleship as a basis” (Pages 6–7)
“In every age it has been the faith that risked that moved mountains, cast out devils, and healed the nations. That is where faith finds its test and its triumphs; and alas! that is where faith so often breaks down. We can trust God for receiving. We can trust even for sanctifying grace: but when it comes to risk!” (Page 167)
“The Spirit of God dwells in man, not as a figure of speech, or a holy influence, or a Divine ideal, but literally, truly, and personally He makes man’s heart His home, the centre of His operations, and the seat of His power.” (Page 190)
“It did not come upon him as a garment, nor fall upon him as an anointing, but finding Its way to the very centre of Gideon’s being, the Spirit took possession of Gideon’s faculties, and put on the man as a garment.” (Page 190)
“There are some who trust God whom God cannot trust. It is the faith that commands confidence to which all things are possible.” (Page 166)
- Title: Humanity and God
- Author: Samuel Chadwick
- Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
- Print Publication Date: 1904
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Sermons, English; Holiness › Sermons; Holiness
- Resource ID: LLS:SAMCHADWICK04
- Resource Type: text.monograph.sermons
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T05:31:40Z