Sacred Classics, or, Cabinet Library of Divinity
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ISBN13: 9780217987639
Paperback|9780217987639
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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: on them whom he sees merciful, and is inexorable to those who shut up their bowels against them that ask them. In order therefore to our thus pleasing God, let us make light of money, and transmit it into the heavenly treasures, 1 where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, nor thieves break through and steal, '1 nor tyrants are able to seize and take it from us, but where it shall be kept to our eternal advantage under the custody of God himself.' CHAPTER III. Of their Unity and Peaceableness. The primitive Christians being of such a meek, compassionate and benevolent temper as we have represented them, it cannot be thought but that they were of a very quiet disposition and peaceable conversation; and the having been so large in that, will excuse me for being shorter in this. When our blessed Saviour came to establish his religion in the world, he gave a law suitable to his nature, and to the design of his coining into the world, and to the exercise of his government as he is 1 Prince of peace, '3 a law of mildness and gentleness, of submission and forbearance towards one another. We are commanded 1to follow peace with all men, to follow after the things that make for peace, as much as in us lies to live peaceably with all men: '1 we are forbidden all feuds and quarrels, enjoined ' not to revenge ourselves, but to give place unto wrath, to let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking be put away from us, with all malice, to be kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake forgives us.'3 1 Matt. vi. 20. - Lact. Epitom. c. 7, p. 746. 3 Isai. U. 6. These are the laws of Christianity, which whenever they are duly entertained produce the most gentle and good-natured principles, the most innocent and qui
| ISBN-13 | 9780217987639 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021798763X |
| Weight | 0.56 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.38 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 166 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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