J. GRUNDY, (LATE COOKE AND CO.) LONDON: WERTHEIM AND MACINTOSH. LIVERPOOL: THOMPSON, ELIOT STREET. 1855. 100.3.418. CONTENTS. SERMON 1. So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love Page But Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried "So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs."-St. John xxi.' 15. It was on one of the forty days, between our Lord's resurrection and his going into heaven. St. Peter was in company with six of his fellow disciples, by the lake of Galilee; and having been accustomed to the life of a fisherman, before he was called to be one of the apostles, he seems to have been but imperfectly weaned from his old pursuits for instead of devoting himself entirely to his apostolic duties, he instigated his companions to occupy themselves upon the sea. He said unto them, "I go a fishing," and they immediately answered, "We also go with thee:" but when they had acted upon his suggestion, the event sufficiently shewed that they, who had been commissioned to preach the gospel, need Α |