Challoner, Richard (1691-1781)

Considerations Upon Christian Truths and Christian Duties; Digested into Meditations for Every Day of the Year

[London?]

1754

"In the first place, we must offer him the tribute of our gold, as to our true King; that is, we must daily present him with our souls, stampt with his own image, and burnished with divine love."

CONSIDER first, that the gold, frankincense, and myrrh, offered by the wisemen to our new-born Saviour, mystically denote other offerings, which we also ought daily to make to him. In the first place, we must offer him the tribute of our gold, as to our true King; that is, we must daily present him with our souls, stampt with his own image, and burnished with divine love. This is the gold, this is the tribute our Sovereign expects from us. When the Jews asked him concerning their giving tribute to Cæsar, he called for their coin, in which they had the image of Cæsar; and inferred from thence, that they were to render to Cæsar the things that were Cæsar's, (Matt. xxii.) that is, to give him what was stampt with his image. Our souls are stampt with God's own image, to this very end, that we should give them in tribute to him, by perfect love: render then to God the things that are God's; by daily offering your whole souls up to him, by fervent acts of love; and you shall have given him your gold.
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Text from Considerations Upon Christian Truths and Christian Duties; Digested into Meditations for Every Day of the Year. Part I (London: Printed by J. P. Coghlan, 1784). <Link to Google Books>

First published as Considerations upon Christian truths and Christian duties Digested into Meditations for Every Day in the Year. Part I. For the first Six Months. (London, 1754). <Link to ECCO>

04/18/2012