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The Collected Works of John Henry Newman (31 Vols.) includes over two hundred fifty sermons from Newman. Newman's professional career spanned nearly seventy years, during which time he held the position of vicar at Oriel College, Oxford, rector of University College, Dublin, priest at Birmingham Oratory and was appointed to the college of Cardinals in 1879. Parochial and Plain Sermons, Sermons...

Goliath. He would have lost his calling, he would have been tried, and have failed. The Prophet’s oil would have profited him nothing, or rather would have increased his condemnation. The Spirit of God would have departed from him as He departed from Saul, who also had been anointed. So, also, our privileges will but increase our future punishment, unless we use them. He is truly and really born of God in whom the Divine seed takes root; others are regenerated to their condemnation. Despise not the
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