Sinopsis
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. 1824 Excerpt: ...then, bear them all? Yes;--Cast all your cares upon me, saith he. I can bear them, for I am Power; I will, for I am Love. What can we do since he does all for us, but sit down lost in wonder, in time and eternity, and give to Jesus all power, praise, and glory, for ever and ever, Amen? May his blessed Spirit give the dear reader to know this, N and teach the poor writer to know it too! Your's, my dear friend, I trust, in the best of bonds, R. J. M. Letter from the Rev. J. Hervcy. Weston, December 17, 1747. Dear Sir; I truly commiserate your variegated calamity, and heartily wish I could suggest any thing which might be the means of administering some ease to your afflicted mind, and of assisting you to reap ample benefit from your distressed situation. You well know, that all afflictions of what kind soever, proceed from God. "I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I, the Lord, do all these things."--(Isaiah, xlv. 7.) They spring not from the dust; are not the effects of a random chance, but the appointment of an all-wise, all-foreseeing God, who intends them all for the good of his creatures. This, I think, is the fundamental argument for resignation, and the grand source of comfort. This should be our first reflection, and our sovereign support. He that gave me my being, and gave his own Son for my redemption, he has assigned me this suffering.--What he ordains, who is boundless love, must be good: what he ordains, who is unerring wisdom, must be proper. This reconciled Eli to the severest doom that was ever denounced. It is the Lord, and though grievous to human nature, much more grievous to parental affection, yet it is unquestionably the best; therefore, I humbly acquiesce; I kiss the awful decree, and say from ...
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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. 1824 Excerpt: ...then, bear them all? Yes;--Cast all your cares upon me, saith he. I can bear them, for I am Power; I will, for I am Love. What can we do since he does all for us, but sit down lost in wonder, in time and eternity, and give to Jesus all power, praise, and glory, for ever and ever, Amen? May his blessed Spirit give the dear reader to know this, N and teach the poor writer to know it too! Your's, my dear friend, I trust, in the best of bonds, R. J. M. Letter from the Rev. J. Hervcy. Weston, December 17, 1747. Dear Sir; I truly commiserate your variegated calamity, and heartily wish I could suggest any thing which might be the means of administering some ease to your afflicted mind, and of assisting you to reap ample benefit from your distressed situation. You well know, that all afflictions of what kind soever, proceed from God. "I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I, the Lord, do all these things."--(Isaiah, xlv. 7.) They spring not from the dust; are not the effects of a random chance, but the appointment of an all-wise, all-foreseeing God, who intends them all for the good of his creatures. This, I think, is the fundamental argument for resignation, and the grand source of comfort. This should be our first reflection, and our sovereign support. He that gave me my being, and gave his own Son for my redemption, he has assigned me this suffering.--What he ordains, who is boundless love, must be good: what he ordains, who is unerring wisdom, must be proper. This reconciled Eli to the severest doom that was ever denounced. It is the Lord, and though grievous to human nature, much more grievous to parental affection, yet it is unquestionably the best; therefore, I humbly acquiesce; I kiss the awful decree, and say from ...
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