The Eden Family; Shewing the Loss of Our Paradise Home, and Our Obligations for Our Rescue (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: consent that the great cardinal truth is neither in infidelity nor idolatry, but is laid deep at the very foundation of Christianity, and it is this: " The Lord our God is one Lord." The book of Holy Scripture and the beautiful volume of nature are both open before us, and, in the most perfect harmony, they teach us the same interesting and momentous truths. In the former we read the text, "One God is the Father of us all,"?our Father, we mean, in the sense of Creator, ?the cause of our being, and the source whence all our blessings flow, and in the latter we find the illustrations of his paternal relationship; and hence we conclude that, though atheism be ignorant of Hun, and idolatry acknowledge Him not, yet, doubtless, He is our Father, "in whom we live and move and have our being." And, as He is the universal Parent of all creatures, it becomes the duty of all rational beings to demean themselves toward Him with that filial reverence, affectionate devotion, and cheerful obedience, which the best of children owe to the best of Fathers; and, while it is our duty to love, and honour, and obey Him, as our Father, it is equally our privilege to expect, and receive from Him, such blessings as the most affectionate parent bestows on his family of dutiful children. For, in a sense infinitely higher, more important, and interesting, than any earthly parent can lay claim to the title, He is our Father, ?our Father which is in heaven. And, if we regard it as a duty to behave ourselves with reverence towards the fathers of our flesh, shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of our spirits and live ? In contemplating the relationship which He sustains towards the illustrious Eden family, observe: ? 1. His universal paternity. " O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the...