Excerpt from Sermons Preached in Manchester The two Clauses of my text figuratively point to two different classes of operation on the rejectors of the Gospel. What are these two Classes P Whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. In the one case, the stone is represented as passive, lying quiet; in the other, it has got motion. In the one case, the man stumbles and hurts himself; a remediable injury, a self-inflicted injury, a natural injury, without the active Operation of Christ to produce it at all; in the other case the injury is worse than remediable, it is utter, absolute, grinding destruction, and it comes from the active operation of the stone of stumbling. That is to say, the one class represents the present hurts and harms which, by the natural operation of the thing, without the action of Christ judicially at all, every man receives in the very act of rejecting the Gospel and the other represents the ultimate issue of that rejection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.