Gospel Analogies and Other Sermons

Robert Govett

Hard cover; 250 pgs.

Robert Govett was not only a writer and theologian, he was Pastor who spoke weekly sermons for over 40 years. In this book, at the suggestion of some of his congregation, he published a collection of 19 of them. The style is more persuasive than doctrinal, originally spoken as gospel messages. In most of them he seeks to explain Biblical truths using analogies. For example, the gospel listener is compared to:

• A condemned criminal in a dungeon who has received a writ of Pardon from the King himself, but carelessly neglects reading it, not realizing he could use it to secure his freedom;

• An Israelite bitten by a fiery serpent in the wilderness (Num. 21:4-9), who vainly seeks Egyptian magic potions for a cure and rejects the invitation to look at the bronze serpent lifted on a pole by Moses (John 3:14).

Each story is embellished in such a way with colorful descriptions of the stubbornness, pride and foolishness of the perishing, as to make a powerful impression on the hearer.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. A Physician Needed
2. Natural and Spiritual Blindness
3. Sin Continuous in the Unregenerate
4. Salvation Wholly of Grace
5. The Demand of Christ
6. So Great Salvation
7. Christ a Curse for Man
8. Conformity to the World
9. What is Truth?
10. The Glorious Gospel
11. The Aspects of Justice and Mercy towards Man
12. Faith the only Principle of Works; or St. Paul and St. James Reconciled
13. Sinful Enticements Sacrificed
14. Salvation Difficult, and the Inference
15. The Sacrifice of Abraham, and that of Christ
16. The Brazen Serpent
17. Regeneration Required
18. The Terms of Salvation