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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: cured. Let the baneful thoughts of idleness be chased out of our minds. But then also, let some thoughts on that subject, What good may I do ? come into them. Wiien you have leisure to think on that subject, you can have no excuse for neglecting it. SECTION XI. On doing good in our domestic relations. The Useful man may now, with great propriety, extend and enlarge the sphere of his well-doing. My next proposal, therefore, shall be, Let every man consider the Relation in which the sovereign God has placed him; and let him devise what good he may do, that he may render his relatives the better for him. One great way to prove ourselves really good, is to be relatively good. It is by this, more than by any thing else, that we adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour. It would be excellent wisdom in a man, to make the interest which he has in the good opinion and affection of others, an advantage for inducing them to engage in God's service. He that has a friend, will show himself friendly indeed, if he think, Such a one loves me, and will hearken to me; to what good shall I take advantage from hence to persuade him ? This will take place more particularly where the endearing ties of natural relation give us an interest. Let us call over our several relations, andlet us devise something that may be called heroical goodness, in onr discharging them. Why should we not, at least once or twice a week, make this relative goodness the subject of our inquiries, and of our purposes ? Especially, let us begin with our domestic relations, and provide for those of our own house, lest we deny some glorious rules and hopes of the Christian faith, by our negligence. First; In the Conjugal Relation, how agreeably may those who are thus united, think on these words: What kno...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217207089 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217207081 |
| Weight | 0.31 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.21 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 86 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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