The Evangelical Repository (Volume 7) (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: alive. Secondly, That in myself, and in all creatures, there is only insiilEcieiicy. but Christ is all-sufficient, and in him there is enough for On his death-bed, he said to some young ministers around him, "0! how great is your work, and for what seriousness does it call ? As for me, I will tell you three things. 1. Every sermon cost me many tears in studying it. 2. Before I preached it I got good from it myself; and 3. I went into the pulpit as if going to give account to my Master at the judgment-seat, and so I preached." Such are some of the ministering men of God. 0! that there were many who will Go And Do Likewise ! Paul. CONSIDERATIONS ON LOTS. NO. V. We have repeatedly slated, in the course of these papers, that our great objection to lots as they are commonly used, is the impiety of their principle; and that this constitutes the unlawfulness of games of chance, such as cards, dice, c. Assuming our doctrine as true, because it has been proved, we can view the mischiefs attendant upon gaming, in no other light than that of penalties which God inflicts upon the violation of his law. On the confirmed gamester we do not hope to make an impression. An understanding so blighted; a conscience so seared; a heart so cold, so selfish, and so hard, as enter into the composition of his character, render him deaf to remonstrance, and put him, for the most part, out of the reach of reform. But they who hate gaming, while they love the game; who play freely for amusement, while they would, on no account, play for lucre; and who would shudder at the thought of promoting either vice or misery, are entreated to reflect whether there be not such evils connected with the game of chance, even in its least exceptionable form, and with its best limitations, as require them t...