Excerpt from The Necessity for a Christian Ministry in Special Adaptation to the Poor: Two Sermons, Preached in Renshaw Street Chapel, Liverpool: (With a Prospectus of the Objects and Plan of the Proposed Ministry) The argument which the Christ left John to gather from these facts, he on another occasion drew out in express words The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because, mark the because, beautiful argument of a beautiful Theology, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. The Spirit of the Lord was indeed upon him, who understood that to be his mission. We need not miracle to prove that God was in him, and he in God. 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.