Advent with the Hackney Phalanx: "The present season of the year"

From A Course of Sermons, for the Lord's Day throughout the Year, Volume I (1817) by Joseph Holden Pott - associated with the Hackney Phalanx - a sermon for the Third Sunday of Advent.  Here is another example of pre-1833 High Church reverence for the season of Advent (reminding us that the liturgical and catechetical significance of the calendar was not a product of the Movement of 1833), in addition to echoing an ancient pattern in Christian preaching by drawing similarities between the Lord's first and second Advent.

The present season of the year, when we are invited to look forward to the days which are appointed for commemorating the first advent of our Lord, incline us very naturally to turn back the view to those times, of which the Evangelist, in the text [Luke 2:25], makes mention, as the scene of that portion of his narrative. We are led, then, to regard the seasons when good men stood in expectation of their Redeemer's coming to fulfil all that the Prophets had declared concerning him, and to establish his kingdom upon earth ...

Let us, then, so learn to cherish hopeful expectations, and to bend our views to those objects, which were first disclosed to wakeful eyes. To the shepherds of Judea, who kept watch amidst the shades of night, the first splendours of an heavenly glory were displayed. Let us remember, there is yet a future glorious advent, of which no man knoweth what the season shall be.