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. 1840 Excerpt: ...are the most liable to be guilty. Because any thing tastes good they are apt to go on eating of it, without observing any proper limits. Guard yourselves against this crime. Accustom yourselves to think, whenever you go to the table, how that eating and drinking too much will injure your health and unfit you both for ...
Read More
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. 1840 Excerpt: ...are the most liable to be guilty. Because any thing tastes good they are apt to go on eating of it, without observing any proper limits. Guard yourselves against this crime. Accustom yourselves to think, whenever you go to the table, how that eating and drinking too much will injure your health and unfit you both for study and work; and that he who in his youth gives himself up to the pleasures of eating and drinking more than is proper, that is more than is necessary to satisfy his hunger and thirst, will become a glutton and a drunkard, when he is older; and gluttony and drunkenness are frightful crimes. He who gives himself up to them, is unfit for the happiness of the righteous, and cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven. So the New Testament often tells us. They are shut out and placed among dogs and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers and idolaters, and liars. They would not be happy in heaven if they should go there. They would be drunkards and gluttons still, and feel very miserable. INWARD PURITY. 109 No Christian, for the sake of pleasure, Who thinks as Christ would have him think, --Will go beyond a temperate measure, When he sits down to eat and drink. The Lord, this mind and heart.to cherish, Hath food in store, as well as breath; Abused, it causes both to perish In temporal and eternal death. II.--Our conduct in general. You must, if you would be Christians, and acquire all the feelings and dispositions of true Christians, --you must attend carefully to your thoughts and words, and your entire conduct, whether at home or at school, and whether your parents see you or not. You must see to it, that you neither think, speak, nor do any thing which is unjust. If you neglect to do so, you will be in great danger of thinking many things that a.
Read Less
Add this copy of The Life of Jesus. Ed. by the Author of the 'Companion to cart. $34.07, new condition, Sold by Booksplease rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southport, MERSEYSIDE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2020 by Hardpress Publishing.
