OR, THE WORLD, THE VISIBLE CHURCH, AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD, AT THE ADVENT OF THE LORD. BY THE REV. EDWARD HOARE, A.M. CURATE OF RICHMOND. LONDON: J.  HATCHARD AND SON. Kingston : SEELEY.  Richmond : J. DARNILL & SON. 1846. SERMONS ON THE SCRIPTURAL PRINCIPLES OF OUR PROTESTANT CHURCH.— Price 2 s. Richmond: PRINTED BY W. OFFORD, BREWER’S LANE....

The following Lectures on the World, the Visible Church, and the People of God, contain the substance of three Sermons preached in the Advent season of last year.  They were written, and even committed to the press with the full expectation that our happy connexion would long remain unbroken.  But it has pleased God to open before me another sphere of labour, which I have thought it right to undertake; and you must now receive this little volume as a parting memorial from one who can never cease

In what condition will our Lord find society at his coming?  What will be the spirit of the age? and what its habits and occupations when Christ appears to reign?  This is our first question; and it is quite impossible to over-estimate its importance. I.  There will be no stop to men’s pleasures before the advent.  There will be no startling announcement which will prevail to check the pleasure hunters.  They will be found pursuing their giddy course just as at present: they will not find their

There is nothing more beautiful than holy union.  It is beautiful in a family, beautiful in a parish, beautiful in a nation, and above all beautiful in a church.  That such a union ought to exist amongst the people of God on earth none can deny; that it is the joy of heaven, and is about to fill the coming kingdom with overflowing peace, is the happy conviction of every student of the Scriptures.  Nor can we be surprised that men of vivid imagination and ardent minds should be powerfully attract

In considering the state of the world as foretold in prophecy preparatory to the advent of our blessed Lord, we have been led thus far to much matter of a distressing character; we have had to draw the picture of a busy world steeped in apathy, and a professing church full of apostacy; the prospect has in very truth been fearful, gloomy, and disheartening; but we are now to turn to brighter topics, and draw our thoughts to the beloved family of God’s faithful children, to the little band of just