Christian Retirement (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: should obey him?" And, "the fool hath said in his heart, there is no God." O! my soul, and is this hideous evil the inmate of thy heart ? Canst thou cherish such a serpent in thy bosom? Lord, I tremble at the thought. Blessed Jesus, turn out thine enemy?my sin, and make me wholly thine; the purchase of thy blood, the trophy of thy grace, the monument of thy mercy, a living temple consecrated to thy praise. Why is my heart so. prone to leave . A God of mercy and of love ? Why dare the Holy Spirit grieve ? Why far from Christ and heaven remove ? Lord, 'tis the fruit of Adam's sin, The awful taint which nature bears; Create me all anew within, Dissolve my flinty heart to tears. To thee I look, my only Lord; On thee, my trembling soul depends; Blest Saviour! speak the healing word, Thy pard'ning mercy never ends. Then will my heart o'erflow with joy, My life proclaim its grateful praise, Till safe in bliss, without alloy, My soul shall chaunt celestial lays. IV. ON THE PROHIBITION IN PARADISE. Much of the beauty of Scripture is lost to us for want of spiritual discernment. The ways of God appear dark, in proportion to the thick film which rests upon our understanding. The view which the Rev. Hartwell Home has given of the prohibition in paradise, in a note in the first volume of his " Introduction to the Critical Study of the Holy Scriptures," is very important. He says, " that the particular injunction given to our first parents not to eat of the fruit of a particular tree has been a favourite subject of sneer and cavil with the opposers of revelation." It is awful to reflect, how weak, polluted worms of earth dare to charge the infinite wisdom of Jehovah with folly. Surely we must say with the I'salmist, " God is strong and patien...