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. 1847 Excerpt: ...Other men toil long to establish influence by personal character. The minister has it by virtue of his office. Those who now enter the ministry are tempted far more in this respect than were the apostles; and how should they search their own hearts, to see that no such abominable motive has induced them to seek that ...
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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. 1847 Excerpt: ...Other men toil long to establish influence by personal character. The minister has it by virtue of his office. Those who now enter the ministry are tempted far more in this respect than were the apostles; and how should they search their own hearts, to see that no such abominable motive has induced them to seek that office! 2d. It is consummate wickedness thus to prostrate the most sacred of all offices to the worst of purposes. The apostles, at this time, were ignorant. They expected a kingdom where it would be right to seek distinction. But we labor under no such ignorance. We know that his kingdom is not of this world, and wo to the man that acts as though it were. Deep and awful must be the lot of him who thus seeks the honors of the world, while he is professedly following the meek and lowly Jesus. 3d. Humility is indispensable to religion. Ver. 3. No man, who is not humble, can possibly be a Christian. He must be willing to esteem himselt as he is, and to have others esteem him so also. This is humility. And humility is lovely. It is not meanness. It is not cowardice. It is not want of just self-esteem. It is a view of ourselves just as we are, and a willingness that God and all creatures should so esteem us. What can be more lovely' than such an estimation of ourselves? And how foolish and wicked is it to be proud; that is, to think more of ourselves, and wish others to think so, than we really deserve! To put on appearances, and to magnify our own importance, and think that the affairs of the universe could not go on without us, and to be indignant when all the world does not bow down to do us homage--this is hypocrisy, as well as wickedness; and there may be, therefore, hypocrites out of the church, as well as in it. 4th. Humility is the best evide...
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