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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1812 Excerpt: ... experience, as well as the universal consent of the wisest LETTER men in all ages, proves to be interrupted and destroyed _ 1L by nothing so much, as the indulging unruly lusts and passions. And whereas, next to these, the happiness of this lise is greatly impaired by sickness, want, oppression, and many other temporal calamities; Christianity provides for our comfort under all these, not upon the principles of the ancient philosophers, " because they are common to See before, "mankind, and we cannot avoid them, and death will''17'" put an end to them;" but by assuring us, that they come from the hand of a wise and good God, who can and will either deliver us from them, or support us under them, and that they are designed by him to wean us from the delights of this world, and to prepare us for the en-joyment of a much better. Of the like tendency are the many precepts of the Gospel, which command us not to set our hearts upon the things of this world, but to pursue them with moderation and indifference, and a constant resignation to the will of God; as these do not only prevent all the vexation that otherwise attends the loss of them, and our disappointments about them, but also disengage the heart from them, and give it greater liberty, as well as a readier disposition to attend and pursue the affairs of the next life. For though it is certain, that the precepts of Christianity greatly tend to our comfort and happiness in this lise, it is as certain, that they are chiesly designed to prepare us for the happiness of another. The rules of the philosophers were many of them wisely calculated for the good of human society and the members of it in this, world; but had by no means such a direct tendency and relation to the spiritual enjoyments of the next, as ap...
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- EditoreGeneral Books LLC
- Data di pubblicazione2012
- ISBN 10 1235779963
- ISBN 13 9781235779961
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- LinguaInglese
- Numero di pagine164
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