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The Works of Bishop Sherlock (Volume 3); With Some Account of His Life, Summary of Each Discourse, Notes, &C (Paperback)
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The Works of Bishop Sherlock (Volume 3); With Some Account of His Life, Summary of Each Discourse, Notes, &C (Paperback)
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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.
1830. Excerpt: ... DISCOURSE LX. II CORINTHIANS, CHAP. IV.--VERSE
18. For the things which are seen are temporal; but the things
which are not seen are eternal. PART I. The motives to obedience in
all religions are thus far the same, that they depend on the belief
of another invisible world, and the different state and condition
of good and bad men in it: for though it has been maintained, with
some show of reason, that virtue is its own reward, and that man's
chief happiness would consist in the practice of it, though there
were no other rewards annexed to it, yet this, supposing it to be
true, is by much too narrow a foundation to build religion on; for
this could influence only men of abstracted thought and reason, who
are in comparison a very inconsiderable part of mankind. The
generality of the world live by sense, and take their measures of
happiness not from the remote conclusions of reason, but from their
present feeling, from the impressions which are made on them by the
things which they deal and converse with every day; and the rewards
and punishments of religion are calculated to this sense aud
feeling, excepting only that they are distant, and not capable of
being made the present objects of sense: for the punishments
denounced in the gospel against the unrighteousness of men, are
such as nature recoils at; such as, according to the sense the
world has of misery and pain, are insupportable evils; and the only
reason why they operate so weakly on the minds and affections of
men is this, 'that they are not seen.' The same may be said of the
rewards of the gospel: they contain the very happiness that nature
thirsts after, which is life and pleasure for evermore: but neither
can our eyes see these rewards; and therefore they fall short of
raising men to that degree...
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