Sermons to the Spiritual Man
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Shedd’s Sermons to the Spiritual Man complements his Sermons to the Natural Man. Whereas his previous collection of sermons emphasized sin and suffering, this volume preaches forgiveness and victory over sin. Sermons to the Spiritual Man contains twenty-six sermons on the glory of God, faith, holiness, sanctification, prayer, evangelism, and numerous other topics.
Top Highlights
“This generation seeketh after a sign.’ It is not surprising, consequently, that the natural man, finding no response to his passionate and baffled attempts to penetrate the invisible and eternal by the method of the five senses, falls into unbelief, and concludes in his heart that a deity who never shows himself has no real being.” (Page 2)
“God’s inward assurance of mercy and acceptance. He has been in a horror of great mental darkness, and into that black void of his soul God has suddenly made a precious promise, or a comforting truth of his word, to shine out clear, distinct, and glittering, like a star shooting up into a midnight sky.” (Pages 2–3)
“It is one of the many injuries which sin does to man, that it degrades him. It excludes him from the uplifting vision of the Creator, and causes him to expend his mental force upon inferior objects—upon money, houses, lands, titles, and ‘the bubble reputation.’” (Page 5)
“In the first place, humility is becoming to man, because he is a creature” (Page 260)
“elevating mental act, because of the immensity of the Object” (Page 4)
- Title: Sermons to the Spiritual Man
- Author: William G.T. Shedd
- Publisher: Charles Scribner & Co.
- Publication Date: 1884
- Pages: 421
William G. T. Shedd was born in 1820 in Acton, Massachusetts. He attended the University of Vermont, where he studied under James Marsh and encountered the writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He graduated in 1839 and entered Andover Theological Seminary, where he studied under Leonard Woods. At Andover, he became committed to Calvinism in general and Presbyterianism in particular. Upon graduating in 1843, he became a minister at the congregational church in Brandon, Vermont for two years. He taught at the University of Vermont from 1845 to 1852, at Auburn Theological Seminary from 1852 to 1854, and at Andover Theological Seminary from 1854 to 1862. He began teaching at Union Theological Seminary in 1864, where he remained until his death in 1894. While at Union, he defended the Reformed theology of Old School Presbyterianism against the increasing influence of modernism and higher criticism. In addition to the works included in this collection, he is also well-known for his 7-volume Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his Dogmatic Theology, available from Logos.