The Bazaar Book - Or Vernacular Preacher's Companion (1865) (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: ADDRESS No. III. God, who is above all, is the Creator, Sustainer and Protector of men. Therefore He is Lord of all. It is His prerogative to lay down the rules by which men are to walk. All without exception are bound to submit to Him, and keep His laws. God has made known His holy will. He has written His laws on the very hearts of men. All know perfectly well, that lying, and stealing, and murder are wicked deeds. All are fully cognizant, that anger, and covetousness, and lust, and pride, and envy, and hatred are wicked dispositions. And how do they know these things so well ? Is it not because God has written on every man's heart the law, that he shall not do these evil deeds, nor indulge these evil dispositions ? More than this: God has promulgated his laws clearly and at large in his holy word of truth. We tell you those laws in the order in which He himself has announced them. Listen. They are ten. 1st. Worship no false gods. 2nd. Bow down to no images. 3rd Take not the holy name of God in vain. 4th. Keep holy the Sabbath day. 5th. Honor thy father and thy mother. 6th. Do no murder. 7ih. Commit not adultery. 8th. Steal not. 9th. Lie not. IQth. Covet not thy neighbor's property. From these laws it is perfectly plain what sin is. All acts which are in accordance with these divine lawsare right. All actions which are opposed to them are wrong. To the question, whether there is any one in the wide world, who .lias without failure kept these laws; all must at once reply, that there is no such person. Men do what God has forbidden, and leave undone what he has commanded. And by so doing all are involved in a common ruin. Cural, 47TH Chapter; 6xn Stanza. Translation. " A man is ruined by doing things which ought not to be done...