This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ... morning we know not what weather will be before night; we have ofttimes summer and winter in the same day, and all this is imputed to the near neighbourhood of tho sea that surrounds them. The taints in heaven, they live, as 1 may so say, on the continent; a blessed constancy of peace and rest is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ... morning we know not what weather will be before night; we have ofttimes summer and winter in the same day, and all this is imputed to the near neighbourhood of tho sea that surrounds them. The taints in heaven, they live, as 1 may so say, on the continent; a blessed constancy of peace and rest is there enjoyed. They may know by what peace and bliss they have at present, what they shall have to eternity; but here, below, the chureh of Christ is as a floating island, compassed with the world (I mean, men of the world) as with a sea; and these sometimes blow hot, and sometimes cold; sometimes they are still and peaceable, and sometimes enraged and cruel; even as God binds up or lets loose their wrath. Now, Christian, doth it not behove thee to be always in a readiness, when thou knowest not but the next moment the wind may turn into the cold corner; and the times which now faveur the gospel, so as to fill the sails of thy profession with all encouragement, may on a sudden blow full on thy face, and oppose it as much as it did before countenance it? Secondly, Consider, if thy feet be not shod with a preparation to suffer for Christ here on earth, thy head cannot be crowned in heaven, Rom. viii. 17: 'If children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ.' Now mark the following words: 'If so be we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.' It is true, all the saints, do not die martyrs at a stake, but every saint must have a spirit of martyrdom, as I may so call it, a heart prepared for suffering. God never intended Isaac should be sacrificed; yet he will have Abraham lay the knife to his throat. Thus God will have us lay our neck on the block, and be (as Paul said of himself) bound in the spirit, under a sincere...
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