SERMON,

IN AID OF THE FUNDS OF THE

Sussex County Hospital,

AND

GENERAL SEA-BATHING INFIRMARY,

PREACHED AT

ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL, BRIGHTON,

On Sunday, the 27th. of September, 1829,

BY THE

REV. J. S. M. ANDERSON, M. A.

Curate of St. George's Chapel, and Chaplain of the Sussex
County Hospital.

PUBLISHED BY REQUEST.

WHATEVER PROFITS MAY ARISE FROM THE SALE WILL BB

APPLIED TO THE FUNDS OF THE INSTITUTION.

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SERMON,

&c. &c.

JOHN V. c. 2, 3, v.

Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.

In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the

water.

THE miracles of our Lord are not only evidences of the truth of that religion which He came into the world to deliver, but emblems also of the spiritual blessings which we have received from Him. Thus, if He cast out unclean and evil spirits,* He showed thereby that He came to destroy the dominion of "the prince of this worldt," and turn men "from the power of Satan unto God, that they might receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in Him‡.”

Matt. viii. 16. Mark. 1, 32. Luke iv. 40. † John xii. 31.

Acts xxvi. 18.