The Beauties of the Evangelical Magazine (Volume 2) (Paperback)

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. 1803. Excerpt: ... ON MARRIAGE. To the Editor of the Evangelical Magazine. SIR, The following was put into the hands of the wife of a Minister of my acquaintance by her father, on the morning of their marriage, a few months since. By giving it a place in your Repofitory, you will much oblige yours, J-F Sheerness, Feb. 11, 1799. MARRIAGE is a divine institution of a wife and gracious God, and when two perfons are united together in the fear and love of God, they will, under him, as far as possible, fupport one another in the path of life and in the road to heaven. From the double tie of love and duty they will watch over one another for good, bear each other's burdens, and fo fulsil the law of Christ. I had rather, my dear daughter, give you to a man of this defcription, even if he was destitute of a penny, than to one possesfed of thoufands a year and a stranger to vital godlinefs. How grateful then is it to me, and what a profpect of benesit to you, when I fee you not only united to a christian, but to one who for feveral years, even from the age of fourteen, has been called to the knowledge of the true God and Jefus Christ, which is eternal life; and whom God has honoured with a commission to preach the Gofpel, and that with fuccefs. Esteem him, my dear daughter, very highly in love for his work's fake. Would you have an honourable man? It is granted you: # a fervant of the most high God, and an ambafsador of Jefus Christ.--Would you have a man possessed of riches? It is granted: he has found the pearl of great price, and is employed by Him, in whom are hid all the treafures of wifdom and knowledge; who himfelf hath put into that earthen vessel hidden treafures, gists and graces of the Holy Spirit, and hath given him power to bring out of thofe treafures things new and old...