The Works of the REV. Charles Buck (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.1822 Excerpt: ... MISCELLANEOUS. 353 changed as moved. Besides, many friends are not more fickle than false; like deep ponds, clear at the top, and all muddy at the bottom. Fide ergo: sedcui vide. Try before you trust: and when you haved tried your utmost, trust not over far, lest you cry out at length, as Queen Elizabeth did, "in trust, I have found treason: " or Julius Caesar, when stabbed by Brutus among others, " what thou, my son Brutus?" He was slain in the senate house, with twenty-three wounds, given mostly by persons whose lives he had preserved. It is reported of Agesilaus, that coming to help the king of Egypt in his distress he was despised by the Egyptians, because of the plainness of his person, and the homliness of his attire: for they thought that they should see the king of Sparta, such an one, as the king of Persia was, bravely habited and pompously attended: so did the Jews expect a Messiah like one of the mighty monarchs of the earth; and they are strongly possessed with the fond conceit of an earthly kingdom. Hence when they saw Mahomet arising in such power, they were ready to cry him up for the Messiah. The rich hath many friends, saith Solomon; but the poor is hated, even of his own neighbour, Prov. xiv. 20. Christ came to his own; but his own received him not. It was once disputed among the Romans in their senate, whether Christ, having done many wonderful works, should be received into the number of the gods? But their historian adds, that they declined to do it, because he preached poverty, and made choice of poor men to be his followers, such as the world careth not for. Consistency of Character. Nothing can be more indecent and absurd than to pretend the relation and respect of disciples to such an holy master as Jesus Christ, and yet by disobedie...