"We have our Jerusalem": A Hackney Phalanx Sermon for Low Sunday

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 - an extract from a sermon for the First Sunday after Easter, on the disciples encountering the Risen Christ on the road to Emmaus.  Reading this passage, it is difficult not to think of similarities with Newman's Sermons Plain and Parochial, which itself reminds us that Newman's theologically rich and engaging preaching stood in continuity with earlier Old High preaching, rather than contrasting with supposed 'High and Dry' sermons.

... a wide field opens to our view at this season, when we stand, as it were, between the periods of our Redeemer's resurrection and his return to the realms of light; and when the public offices and service of our Church invite us to commemorate that term of our Lord's continuance in the scene of his ministry and converse upon earth ... the state to which we belong, is by avowed profession, by the ministration of the word and sacraments through all its cities, towns, and villages, a Christian Church. Thus we have our Jerusalem, for the welfare and increase of which we have to pray, and in which it is incumbent upon us to hold a spiritual converse, and to maintain a regular communion.

... let us endeavour earnestly to keep our place among those who love the laws, and obey the ordinances of his household. Such dispositions will make part in that happiness, which will endure when base pleasures turn to shame, and when care less indolence and unrepented follies shall bear the weight of their just punishment; when the riches and the glories of this world shall fade from our remembrance; and when they only shall inherit everlasting wealth, who have cherished in their hearts the fear and love of God, returning from past errors, where they may have strayed unhappily from their first engagement; or pursuing that good path, in which they have made a gradual progress, holding fast the promises which have been sealed in the Redeemer's precious blood, and ratified yet more completely by his glorious and triumphant resurrection.