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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: SERMON III. On our Lives being in the Hand of God. Preached at the Beginning of a New Year -] Psalm xxxi. 15. My times are in thy Hand.? Sermon rpiHE sun that rolls over our heads, A the food that we receive, the rest that we enjoy, daily admonish us of a superiour power, on whom the inhabitants of the earth depend for light, life, and subsistence. But as long as all things proceed in their ordinary course; when day returns after day with perfect simi- January 6tb, 1793, larity 5larity; when our life seems stationary, Sermjn and nothing occurs to warn us of any HI approaching change, the religious sentiments of dependence are apt to be forgotten. The great revolutions of time, when they come round in their stated Older, have a tendency to force some impressions of piety even on the most unthinking minds. They both mark our existence on earth to be advancing towards its close, and exhibit our condition as continually changing; while each returning year brings along with it new events, and at the same time carries us forwards to the conclusion of all. We cannot, on such occasions, avoid perceiving, that their is a Supreme Being, who holds in his hands the line of our existence, and measures out to each of us our allotted pprtion of that line. Beyond a certain limit, we know that it cannot be extended; and long before it reach that limit, it may be cut asunder by an invisible hand, which is stretched forth over all the inhabitants of the world. Then naturally arises the ejaculation of the text, My times, 0 God, are in thy band. My fate de- ' pends Sermon pends on thee. The duration of my iii. c iife, an(j gji the events which in fu-. ture days are to fill it, are entirely at c thy disposal.?Let us now, when we have just seen one year close, and ano...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217047876 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217047874 |
| Weight | 0.58 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.40 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 174 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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