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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 THE INFLUENCE OF RELIGION UPON PROSPERITY. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bring- eth forth his fruit in his season: his leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doth shall prosper.?Psalm i. 3. THE happy influence of religion upon human life, in the time of adversity, has been considered in the preceding discourse. Concerning this the sentiment of men are more generally agreed, than with respect to some other prerogatives which religion claims. They very readily assign to it the office of a Comforter. But as long as their state is prosperous, they are apt to account it an unnecessary guest, perhaps an unwelcome intruder. Let us not be thus unjust to religion, nor confine its importance to one period only in the life of man. It was never intended to be merely the nurse of sickness, and the staff of old age. I purpose now to show you, that it is no less essential to the enjoyment of prosperity, than to the comfort of adversity: That prosperity is prosperous, if we may be allowed the expression, to a good man only; and that to every other person, it will prove, notwithstanding its fair appearance, a barren and joyless state. The Psalmist, in the text, by an image taken from one of the most beautiful objects in nature, describes a man who flourishes in full prosperity. But to whom is the description limited ? To him, as the preceding verses inform us, that walketh not in the council of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful, but hath his delight in the law of God, He only is like the tree planted by the rivers of water; whilst the ungodly, as he adds, are not so; but, how prosperous soever they may appear to the world, are irt truth but like the chaff which the wind driveth a...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217869928 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217869920 |
| Weight | 1.24 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.85 In |
| List Price | $17.89 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 382 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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