Sermons, on Various Subjects Volume 4 (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. 1826 Excerpt: ...what deserves thy esteem, thy love, and thy trust, in comparison with him: he is accessible through Christ, he hears prayers, he listens to the cry of his servants and his people. Resolve, therefore, that thou wilt converse with him: address him, therefore, by daily prayer, and particularly in secret. Enter into thy closet, it will assist thy conceptions of him, it will remind thee of his existence, and of thy business with him there; and see to it that this part of duty do not degenerate into a form, that the soul be right with God Serm. while it is performed; and I do not doubt vJ, but it will have a most happy influence; and will bring the mind to such a temper and disposition that you may often be able to direct the eye of the soul to God in the intervals of such solemnities; as a pious native of France expresses it, that when he passed through the streets of Paris, where one may well imagine there would be diversions enough, his soul was no more moved than if he were in a desert. 7. Let us cry earnestly to the great Father of spirits to direct our fallen and degenerate minds to himself, if we desire to maintain our frequent views of him. We might, says that excellent person, to whom I have just referred, as soon bring down fire from heaven, or draw the stars from their orbits, as kindle devotion in our own cold dead hearts without a Divine agency and operation. The Lord opened the eyes of Hagar, and she saw the relief which he had prepared for her in the wilderness. He must open our eyes, or we shall not see him. Cry therefore to him with all your souls, and if you feel your hearts raised to him, look upon Serm. it as a token for good, as an assurance not om"y of his providential but gracious presence. "O thou King eternal, immortal, and invi...