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Introduction.
This again holds good for all men: “If any man keep My word,” that is, My law and commandments, “he shall not see death forever,” but shall possess the eternal kingdom of heaven. Not one man in the world is excepted here; all should keep the law, for this is the will and desire of God, who, as far as in Him lies, wishes the salvation of all men. All can keep the law, for graces and helps are given to all, since the divine generosity has prepared them in abundance, as I have already shown. Meanwhile there are many people, etc. Continues as above.
SIXTY-SEVENTH SERMON.
ON THE HOPE OF THE JUST TO ATTAIN ETERNAL HAPPINESS, ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE FORMERLY COMMITTED GRIEVOUS SINS.
Subject.
No just man has cause to give way to a cowardly fear on the way to heaven on account of, sins committed, many and grievous though they be, if he has repented of them from his heart; but rather all the more should he hope and rejoice in the Lord.—Preached on the sixth Sunday after Easter.
Text.
Charitas operit multitudinem peccatorum.—I. Pet. iv. 8. (From to-day’s Epistle.)
“Charity covereth a multitude of sins.”
Introduction.
Truly, consoling words to encourage each and every sinner! What a good and merciful God we have! For after we have offended Him and insulted Him most grossly, a hundred, and even a hundred thousand times, and thus deserved the fire of hell, He has nevertheless prepared for us an easy and certain means of freeing ourselves from the filth of sin, and regaining our right to heaven; for all He asks of us is to repent sincerely and make a firm resolution of not sinning again, and to disclose our transgressions in confession to a man like ourselves, that we may