class="smcap">Use and Abuse of the Sense of the Vanity of the World

149   SECTION IV.   Text and Versions 164   DISCOURSE VIII.   Knowing All Things 166   SECTION V.   Text and Versions 179   SECTION VI.   Text and Versions 185   DISCOURSE IX.   Lofty Ideals Perilous unless Applied 188   SECTION VII.   Text and Versions 204   SECTION VIII.   Text and Versions 207   DISCOURSE X.   Boldness in the Day of Judgment 210   SECTION IX.   Text and Versions 220   DISCOURSE XI.   Birth and Victory 223   DISCOURSE XII.   The Gospel as a Gospel of Witness; the Three Witnesses 236   DISCOURSE XIII.   The Witness of Men (applied to the Resurrection) 241   DISCOURSE XIV.   Sin unto Death 254   DISCOURSE XV.   The Terrible Truism which has no Exception 260   SECTION X.   Text and Versions 274   SECOND EPISTLE.   Text and Versions 279   DISCOURSE XVI.   Theology and Life in Kyria's Letter 282   THIRD EPISTLE.   Text and Versions 297   DISCOURSE XVII.   The Quietness of True Religion 300

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PART I.

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"Johannis Epistolæ, ultimusque primæ versiculus, in Ephesum
imprimis conveniunt."
(Bengelin Act. xix. 21.)

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DISCOURSE I.

THE SURROUNDINGS OF THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. JOHN.

"Little children, keep yourselves from idols."—i John v. 21.

After the example of a writer of genius, preachers and essayists for the last forty years have constantly applied—or misapplied—some lines from one