Then drew near unto Him all the publicans and sinners for to hear Him. And the Pharisees and O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: shouldest not thou also Jesus said, Who touched Me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with Him said, Master, the Leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the found- ation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, and of ON THE EVE OF THE DEPARTURE OF THE REV. J. G. DRIBERG, AND CATECHIST H. J. HARRISON, ΤΟ COMMENCE THE MISSION TO THE GONDS OF THE Preached in St. Peter's Chapel, Bishop's College, June 14,1846. Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, Preached in St.Peter's Chapel, Bishop's College, June 20,1847. The child Samuel ministered unto the Lord before Eli. SERMON I SECOND SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY. JOHN ii. 11. This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth His glory. THE whole season of the year from Christmas Day until now is called Epi Q. What Festival does the Church celebrate this day? A. The Epiphany, or the Manifestation (as the word signifies in the Greek) of our Saviour Jesus Christ to the Gentiles. Q. What other signification has the word Epiphany ? A. It signifies Christ's Appearance in the world, the Nativity of our Saviour, which among the ancients is commonly styled, the Appearance simply, or, the Appearing of God. And the Feast of the B phany, or Manifestation, because at it the Church celebrates and sets forth, for our meditation, the various ways in which b Nativity being celebrated twelve days, of which the first and the last, according to the custom of the Jews in their Feasts, were high or chief days of solemnity, each of these might fitly be called Epiphany in that sense, and not only referring to the star; though not excluding but containing it also, as a special circumstance belonging to the Nativity. Besides, the word has been further made use of to express the glorious Manifestation at our Saviour's Baptism, and His miraculous power at the marriage in Cana of Galilee by turning water into wine.-Nelson's Fasts and Festivals, chap. x. The Epiphany. b Three of these are introduced into the special Services for the Feast of the Epiphany; viz. in the Second Lesson for the morning, the Manifestation of our Lord by the descent of the Holy Ghost and Voice from Heaven at His Baptism. In the Gospel, His Manifestation to the Gentiles, represented by the wise men from the East. In the Second Lesson for the evening, the Miracle of the change of water into wine at the marriage in Cana of Galilee. is worthy of remark, that this Miracle is thrice introduced into the special Services of our Church ; and that of the miraculous feeding of the five It |