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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: DISCOURSE 11. . -. t i . THE GROUND CURSED FOR MAN'S SAKE, Genesis, iii. 17, 18, 19. .' Cursed is the ground for thy sake?thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth unto tfae?in the Sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, AS in husbandry, so in religion, toil precedes prpfit; the ground must by an irksome and laborious process, be prepared for the good seed which shall then be cast in, and springing up yield a plenteous harvest. Tho.se pleasing representations which are calculated to cheer and console, must not be offered until you have learnt those salutary truths which shall confound and condemn. The Holy Ghost invariably convicts of sin, before he comforts; this is the order in which the promise is made, and in which only it will be fulfilled, You perhaps, hoped to have heard to day, in some entertaining allegory, of the promised privileges of religion; tp have been invited to walk throughfields standing thick with corn, or over hills covered with docks; but you are led to barren ground, and called to rove among thorns and briers; for we must begin where God begins, and conform to the wise order he has prescribed. You labor first, and then receive your wages. I rejoice that many of you are accustomed to eye the hand of God in every thing; and He who has thus instructed you, may and will in rich mercy, teach others also to their saving profit; and under his illumination the most difficult truths shall be comprehended, and the most distasteful shall be rendered both pleasant and profitable. The bee taught by his maker, extracts honey from the same flower which yields poison to the spider; and while there are many like the noxious insect, deriving nourishment to their discontent indolence, or rebellion, ?which are the poisons of human life, ?from the
| ISBN-13 | 9780217547529 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217547524 |
| Weight | 0.62 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.43 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 186 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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