Practical Piety (Volume 2); Or, the Influence of the Religion of the Heart on the Conduct of the Life - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1812. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... not to lacerate your feelings Imt to arm your resolution, not to excite unprofitable distress, but to strengthen your faith. If it terrify you at first, draw a little nearer to it every time. Familiarity will ahate the terror. If you cannot face the image, how will you encounter the reality ? Let us then figure to ourselves the moment (who can lay that moment may not be the next?) when all we cling to shall elude our grasp ; when every earthly good shall be to us as if it had never been, except in the remembrance of the use we have made of it; when our eyes shall close upon a world of sense, and open on a world of spirits; when there shall be no relief for the fainting body, and no refuge for the parting soul, except that single refuge to which, perhaps, we have never thought of resorting--that refuge which if we have not despised we have too prohably neglected--the everlasting mercies of God in Christ Jesus. Keader! whoever you are, who have neglected to remember that to die is the end for which yon were born, know that you have a personal interest in this scene. Turn not away from it in disdain, however feebly it may have been represented. You may escape any other evil of life, but its end you cannot escape. Defer not then its weightiest concern to its weakest period. Begin not the preparation when you should be completing the work. Delay not the business which demands your best faculties to the period of their dehility, prohably of their extinction. Leave not the work which requires an age to do, to be done in a moment, a moment too which may not be granted. The alternative is tremendous. The difference is that of being saved or lost. It is no light thing to perish. CHAP. XIX. HAPPY DEATHS. FEW circumstances contribute more fatally to confirm in worldly men t...

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