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SERMON XII.

LUKE, VII. 16.

And there came fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet

is risen up among us; and, That God hath visited his people.

THIS is the observation the Evangelist makes, after having given us an account of the resurrection of the widow's son from the grave in the town of Nain. It is a remarkable miracle. It will therefore, in the first place, be proper to take a slight view of it, observing by the way, that St. Luke alone of all the Evangelists makes mention of it.

The miracle, we are told, was performed on the day after our Lord had cured, at the instigation of the master, the centurion's servant of a malignant

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