A Practical Exposition of the Gospel According to St. Luke: In the Form of Lectures, Intended to Assist the Practice of Domestic Instruction and Devotion (Classic Reprint)
A Practical Exposition of the Gospel According to St. Luke: In the Form of Lectures, Intended to Assist the Practice of Domestic Instruction and Devotion (Classic Reprint)
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. 1850 Excerpt: ..."Except the Lord build the bouse, their labour is but lost that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." If ye then he not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest? Ye can secure nothing for yourselves; all your care, all your diligence, may be frustrated ...
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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. 1850 Excerpt: ..."Except the Lord build the bouse, their labour is but lost that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." If ye then he not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest? Ye can secure nothing for yourselves; all your care, all your diligence, may be frustrated by one breath of the divine will. But he can do all for you, as easily as he has ordained that the flowers of the field shall grow, and the fowls of the air be nourished, by the wise arrangements of his providence. The poor or the distressed man thinks himself happy if he can obtain the protection of a fellowcreature who is richer than himself, and a little higher in the world. How much more reason have they for ease and comfort, who have placed themselves in the hand of an Almighty Protector! But it will be said, Troubles, after all, do not spare the Christian; he is often in pain, distress, and poverty. True; but these are as much the fruits of paternal care, as the temporal blessings which he would prefer to them. If our heavenly Father sends these things, it is because he knoweth we have need of them: and there is the same love in the provision which chastens, as in that which rewards. In that affecting history in Genesis, where Abraham sets out to offer his son Isaac in sacrifice to God, we read that Isaac attends his father willingly, and submits, without murmuring, even to the moment when the knife was in the father's hand; knowing that what a parent did, must be done in tenderness and wisdom. And he who has committed himself to God, will feel, or strive to feel, the same. There must, indeed, be the heart converted to God before this confidence can exist. We do not pretend to say to the careless or the ignorant, to those who a...
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