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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. 1834. Excerpt: ... book of revelation, however mysterious or incomprehensible they may appear to human judgment, because they come to us with all the weight of Divine authority, and with all the influence which Divine inspiration can exercise. The poet thereforo required nothing unreasonable when he said, 'Believe, and show the reason of a man.' For the Methodist Magazine, and Quarterly Review. JUDGMENT FOR THE OPPRESSED; A sermon, preached in the Wesley an chapel in Vestnj-st., New-York, on the 4th of July, 1834, in behalf of' The American Colonization Society,' by Rev. Joseph Holdich. (Published by particular request.) 'The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all tliat are oppressed,' Psa. ciij, 6. Nothing is more important than to maintain a constant belief in the government of Heaven, and to keep up in our own minds the remembrance of the connection between God and his providences. We are aware that there is an impious philosophy at work in the world that would exclude the Divine agency from all human affairs, and by an act of profane divorce separate the Deity from the world that He has made. Into such secrets, however, we have no desire to come, and to such assemblies our honor shall not be united. Believing in God as a Being of infinite perfections, whose absolute intelligence,--knowing the end from the beginning, and comprehending all causes with their effects,--is adequate to all enterprises, who is overpowered by no magnitude, who is not perplexed by multitude, nor eluded by even insignificance, we must acknowledge Him as the Ruler of the affairs of our world, and the Arbiter, directly or indirectly, of all human destinies. These sentiments are not contradicted by the seeming inconsistencies around us. If the proud for a season are seen to go' on prosper...
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