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. 1843 Excerpt: ...which believe not;" as " taking" them " captive at his will." In fact, therefore, he holds possession of the nobler and sublimer portion of our nature;--of that which may be termed the seed-bed of thought, and fancy, and memory; of the powers by which we judge, and sympathize, and invent; of the passions and affections ...
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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. 1843 Excerpt: ...which believe not;" as " taking" them " captive at his will." In fact, therefore, he holds possession of the nobler and sublimer portion of our nature;--of that which may be termed the seed-bed of thought, and fancy, and memory; of the powers by which we judge, and sympathize, and invent; of the passions and affections, by which we are distinguished from the brutes, and qualified for communion with our Maker. In this " palace," or seat of distinction, he enthrones himself, and rules in all the majesty of wickedness; binding every faculty of the inner man to the bad purposes of his will, and marshalling them to acts of daily rebellion against their lawful Sovereign. How awful, my Christian brethren, is this statement! The man without religion may boast of his freedom: he may stand possessed of rank, or authority, or power, among his fellow-men: he may wield all the powers of wit, and genius, and skill: he may reign as a king among men: but he is, in fact, the subject of an empire the most horrible, and a slave of the devil; for his servants ye are to whom ye obey." When he sinks to rest, it is under the shadow of the wing of this great enemy. When he rises to enter on the business of life, it is under his guidance. He is, in a word, according to the emphatical language of Christ, "of his father the devil; and the lusts of his father he will do."--May these truly awful facts assist to awaken every unconverted sinner to a deep and trembling sense of his awful circumstances! May he feel that his supposed liberty is the most intolerable bondage; and that, whilst he imagines himself to rove in all the independence of self-will, and in the licentiousness of a lofty and uncontrolled nature, he is, in fact, held by a...
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