Malachi, from Horae Homileticae

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Christianity - Commentary

Authors: Charles Simeon In Year : 1832

Book Language: English

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The Sovereignty of God's Grace (1:2-3)
Relative Duties to God and Man (1:6)
God's Appeal to Self-Justifying Sinners (1:8)
The Calling of the Gentiles (1:11)
Repentance Glorifying God (2:2)
The Ministerial Office (2:5-7)
The Effects of Christ's Advent (3:1-3)
The Immutability of God (3:6)
Sin A Robbery of God (3:8)
Christian Fellowship Approved of God (3:16-17)
The Sun of Righteousness Arising (4:1-2)
Elijah to Precede our Lord (4:5-6)

Simeon's Works, as they were published 1832, fill twenty-one large octavo volumes, and the title-page reads, "Horae Homileticae or Discourses (principally in the form of Skeletons) now first digested into one continued Series and forming a Commentary upon every book of the Old and New Testament ; to which is annexed an improved Edition of a Translation of Claude's Essay on the Composition of a Sermon". It was the literary achievement of his life, and no unworthy one. These volumes, now long out of print, contain many discourses fully written, among them the several sets of University Sermons; but the large majority of the more than two thousand compositions are précis of parochial sermons, well ordered outlines of exposition, arranged according to the books of the Holy Scriptures. The reader, as the author warns him, will look there in vain for minute criticism or for remote speculation ; but he will seldom fail to gather excellent suggestions how to explain and arrange, and how to carry messages home from the Word of God to the life of man. The term "Skeleton" was certainly unfortunate - Simeon's despisers made merry over it. But the summaries so named were no pieces of lifeless mechanism, as their author planned them, and as he taught others how to use them. They were the bone-systems of sermons which he himself made to live, and speak, and work; and he did his utmost to teach 'his young men' how to do the same. - Summary adapted from Charles Simeon by Handley Carr Glyn Moule, p.88-89.