CHRIST'S

HEALING TOUCH,

AND OTHER SERMONS,

PREACHED AT SURBITON,

(1861-1870)

BY

ALEXANDER MACKENNAL, B.A.

LONDON:

ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1871.

100. W. 8.3.

CONTENTS.

SERMON I.

Christ's Healing Toucn.

MATT. viii. 3.-And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying,

I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

SERMON II.

Uzziah-His Sin and Punishment.

2 CHRON. XXVI. 16-21.-But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up

to his destruction: for he transgressed against the Lord his God, and

went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense upon the altar of

incense. And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him

fourscore priests of the Lord, that were valiant men; and they with-

stood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto

thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the Lord, but to the priests the

sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the

sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed: neither shall it be for thine

honour from the Lord God. Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a

censer in his hand to burn incense: and, while he was wroth with the

priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in

the house of the Lord, from beside the incense altar. And Azariah,

the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he

was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea,

himself hasted also to go out, because the Lord had smitten him. And

Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a

several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the

Lord and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the

people of the land

SERMON III.

Sorrowful Labour.

PSALM CXXVI. 5, 6.-They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that

goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come

again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

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