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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: HEAVEN UPON EARTH; JKSUS THE BEST FBIEHD OF MAN. 14 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace; thereby good ahall come unto thee.?Job ixii. 21. They who have improved their experience of things by wisdom, and gathered up the value of man's life, by comparing his desire with his enjoyments, his troubles and sorrows with his content and joy, have concluded the worth of the life of man to be belownothing; they have drawn a black line upon the whole, and shut up all in darkness. Thus Jacob of old, in the account which he gives of his life to Pharaoh, Gen. xlvii. 9; Job v. 7; and also Solomon, who had an extraordinary measure of wisdom by divine dispensation, who nad a large spirit like the sand of the sea-shore, he gave himself great liberty in trying what that .good under the sun for the sons of men was, Eccl. ii. 1. When he had taken a taste of all the world's contents, yet he finds a bitterness mixed in all delights, which abideth no longer than the pleasure, ver. 1], 17. And whosoever shall enter into himself, and feel the workings of his own mind, shall be able to read over the transcript of the same in his own conscience. Who is he among the sons of men, that in his natural life hath attained to a state wherein he was able to say, Here I will stay, it is now well with me, I desire no addition to my present condition 1 If there be any such, I dare undertake to prove him unacquainted with himself. Where now shall I fasten the blame of this universal evil? Shall we fall out with our life, as a thing not worth the having? Shall weshrink into Out former nothing, and cast up our being and life into the hands of God, as that out of which we gathered nothing but bitterness and disquiet 1 Far be this from us; this were to justify that evil and wicked servant, who said of U...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217220095 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217220096 |
| Weight | 0.48 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.33 In |
| List Price | $20.03 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 140 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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