For the Oracles of God; Four Orations. for Judgment to Come, an Argument, in Nine Parts (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. 1825. Excerpt: ... OF JUDGMENT TO COME. PART II. THE CONSTITUTION UNDER WHICH IT HATH PLEASED GOD TO PLACE THE WORLD. Having shown at length in our former discourse that it is not unpleasant to the nature of man, nor uncongenial with the softest, tenderest, relations of human life, to be held under responsibility to God, and amenable to his future judgment, --we now proceed to examine the constitution under which he hath actually placed us, and upon which he is to enter into judgment with the sons of men. For God, who in this respect, might be a pattern to all law-givers, hath so contrived it in his wisdom, that his laws and ordinances should be within narrow compass, and he hath brought them by-his providence within the reach of small expense, while in his wisdom he hath written them, so that he who runneth may read, and the way-faring man, though a fool, shall not err therein. Upon man, therefore, the knowledge of them is incumbent; and surely he will not hold us guiltless if we refuse to lend 'our ear to the hearing of those words which he hath been at so much pains to reveal. Let us, therefore, gird up the loins of our mind, and draw near with full purpose to v discover what the Lord our God, our Creator and our preserver, our father and our friend, requireth of his children, in order that, if we find it good and wholesome to our nature, we may walk before him in the cheerful obedience of an enlightened and convinced mind. For while allegiance to any constitution, human or divine, is blind prejudice and slavery, so long as you know it not, neither are convinced of its wisdom, it doth become, when the mind approves it as right and just, both dutiful and honourable to adhere to it; and the strictest obedience is then the greatest freedom, being emancipation from what the m..