The Great Exemplar Volume 2; Or, the Life of Our Ever-Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ (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. 1859 Excerpt: ... equivalent to a vicious habit, and interrupts the acceptation of all its former contraries, so it meets with a curse, such as favour of God for all mankind, who might possibly be concerned in the effects of that wind: but if a storm succeeded, he fell prostrate to the earth, and grew as violent in prayer as the storm was either at land or sea: but if God added thunder and lightning, he went to the church, and there spent all his time during the tempest in reciting Litanies, Psalms, and other holy prayers, till it pleased God to restore his favour, and to seem to forget his anger.' And the good bishop added this reason; because these are the extensions and stretchings forth of God's hand, and yet he did not strike; but he that trembles not when he sees God's arm held forth to strike us, understande neither God's mercies nor his own danger; he neither knows what those horrors were which the people saw from Mount Sinai, nor what the glories and amazements shall be at the great day of judgment. And if this religious man had seen Tullus Hostilius, the Itoman king, and Anastasius, a Christian emperor, but a reputed heretic, struck dead with thunderbolts, and their own houses made their urns to keep their ashes in, there could have been no posture humble enough, no prayers devout enough, no place holy enough, nothing sufficiently expressive of his fear, and his humility, and his adoration and leligion to the almighty and infinite power and glorious mercy of God, sending out h-is emissaries to denounce war with designs of peace. A great Italian general, seeing the sudden death of Alfonsus, duke of Ferrara, kneeled down instantly, saying, " And shall not this sight make me religious?" Three and twenty thousand fell 1 Hist. Gent. Anglor. lib. iii. c 18 And...