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. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ... 202 CHAP. XIV. THE CONSOLATIONS OF PRAYER IN AFFLICTION, SICKNESS, AND DEATH. The Pagan philosophers have given many admirable precepts, both for resigning blessings, and for sustaining misfortunes; but, wanting the motives and sanctions of Christianity, though they excite much intellectual admiration ...
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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. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ... 202 CHAP. XIV. THE CONSOLATIONS OF PRAYER IN AFFLICTION, SICKNESS, AND DEATH. The Pagan philosophers have given many admirable precepts, both for resigning blessings, and for sustaining misfortunes; but, wanting the motives and sanctions of Christianity, though they excite much intellectual admiration, they produce little practical effect. The stars which glittered in their moral night, though bright, imparted no warmth. Their most beautiful dissertations on death had no charm to extract its sting. We receive no support from their most elaborate treatises on immortality, for want of Him who "brought life and immortality to light." Their consolatory discussions could not strip the grave of its terrors; for to them it was not "swallowed up in victory." To conceive of the soul as an immortal principle, without proposing a scheme for the pardon of its sins, was but cold consolation. Their future state was but a happy guess: their heaven but a fortunate conjecture. When we peruse their finest compositions, we admire the manner in which the medicine is administered, but we do not find it effectual for the cure, nor even for the mitigation, of our disease. The beauty of the sentiment we applaud, but our heart continues to ache. To this cold scepticism let us oppose the heart-consoling, exhilarating, triumphant certainties of Christianity. "I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. -- In my flesh I shall see God, whom mine eyes shall behold and not another."--"I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord; whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die."--Here is the true balm of Gilead, -- here is the healing cordial for every human woe. The hair-splitting casuist does not directly say...
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