ROMANS VI. 3, 4 :— "Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up PAGE ROMANS VI. 3, 4 :-" Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up 1 COR. XI. 7:--" Now in this that I declare unto you I SERMON I. ACTS 1. 26. The lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven Apostles. THIS day being marked in our Calendar in memory of St. Matthias, and the service of the Church recording to us his apostleship, it may be expected, perhaps, that a few words should be spoken from this place in relation to him. The accounts, however, of St. Matthias offer but scanty materials for a discourse of any length; and of such as have come down to us much seems to be involved in uncertainty, and to afford no sure grounds of knowledge respecting him. What would appear on consideration to be fabulous, I shall pass over in silence, and merely give yoù such particulars as are not doubted, or such as may well be admitted from their probability. B PLAIN SERMONS ON THE CHURCH-MINISTRY AND SACRAMENTS. BY THE REV. CYRIL HUTCHINSON, M.A. STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH. LONDON: W. J. CLEAVER, BAKER STREET, PORTMAN SQUARE. AND J. H. PARKER, OXFORD. M.DCCC.XLI. |