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The return of the King : discourses on the latter days

CONTENTS. SERMON I. Anticipations of the Last Days. But Mary kept all these words, pondering them in her heart" (St. Luke ii. 10). I. The Church blends the two Advents 1 Spirit in which the subject should be studied 2 II. Scripture on the two Advents 4 Our Lord's reference to the Judgment 6 Language of the Apostles 7 III. Conscience anticipating Judgment 8 The early Christian converts 10 IV. Succession of Fathers and Saints 11 Grounds of their anticipations 12 St. Jerome, St Chrysostom, St Gregory the Great 14 St. Vincent Ferrer 16 Conclusion. 16 SERMON II. Prophecies of the End of the World. "Unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition" (a Thess. ii. 3). I. The Thessalonian Christians 19 Advantage to us of their difficulties 20 St. Matthew's words misconceived 22 Explanation by St. Paul 22 St. Paul on Antichrist 24 II. Early Christians instructed on Antichrist 25 The apostacy 26 "He who holdeth" 27 Explained of social order 28 The providential signs 29 III. Principles now at work 30 Successive results 31 Attacks on order 32 IV. Conclusion 33 SERMON III. The Decay of Faith. "But yet the Son of Man when He cometh, shall He find, think you,

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