For this is part of the whole counsel of God, which He reveals in
His Holy Bible; and this also we must not, and dare not, shun
declaring in these days.



SERMON XIII. ABRAHAM'S OBEDIENCE



HEBREWS, xi. 17-19.

"By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac; and he that
had received the promises offered up his only-begotten son, of whom
it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: accounting
that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence
also he received him in a figure."

In this chapter we come to the crowning point of Abraham's history,
the highest step and perfection of his faith; beyond which it seems
as if man's trust in God could no further go.

You know, most of you, doubtless, that Isaac, Abraham's son, was
come to him out of the common course of nature--when he and his
wife, Sarah, were of an age which seemed to make all chance of a
family utterly hopeless. You remember how God promised Abraham that
this boy should be born to him at a certain time, when He appeared
to him on the plains of Mamre, in that most solemn and deep-meaning
vision of which I spoke to you last Sunday. You remember, too, no
doubt, most of you, how God had promised Abraham again and again,