A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year (Volume 1); Fitted to the Great Necessities, and for the Supplying the Want of Preaching in Many Parts of This Nation with Twelve Sermons on Various Subjects (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1826. Excerpt: ... eluded from heaven, hut the dog shall not, and the sinner shall descend into hell; and, which is the confirmation of all evil, for a transient sin God shall inflict an eternal death. Well might it be said in the words of God by the prophet, " Ponam Babylonem in possessionem erinacei," " Babylon shall be the possession of a hedgehog: " that is, a sinner's dwelling, encompassed round with thorns and sharp prickles, afflictions and uneasiness all over. So that he that wishes his sin big and prosperous, wishes his bee as big as a bull, and his hedgehog like an elephant; the pleasure of the honey would not cure the mighty sting; and nothing make recompense, or be a good, equal to the evil of an eternal ruin. But of this there is no end. I sum up all with the saying of Publius Mimus; " Tolerabilior est qui mori jubet, quam qui male vivere," ' He is more to be endured that puts a man to death, than he that betrays him into sin: '--for the end of this is ' death eternal.' SERMON XXII. THE GOOD AND EVIL TONGUE. PART I. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.--Ephes. iv. 19. He that had an ill memory, did wisely comfort himself by reckoning the advantages he had by his forgetfulness. For by this means he was hugely secured against malice and ambition; for his anger went off with the short notice and observation of the injury; and he saw himself unfit for the businesses of other men, or to make records in his head, and undertake to conduct the intrigues of affairs of a multitude, who was apt to forget the little accounts of his own seldom reading. He also remembered this, that his pleasures in reading books were more frequent, while he remembered but little of yesterday's study, and to-m...