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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 II. THE LOVE OF GOD. MARE XII. 30. THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD THY GOD WITH ALL THY HEART, AMD WITH ALL THY SOUL, AND WITH ALL THY MIND, AND WITH ALL THY STRENGTH. THII II THE FIRST COMMANDMENT. You have doubtless often remarked the singular fulness and strength of expression in this command of our Saviour. The variety of phrases employed not only renders the command itself more forcible, but also guards against misapprehensions of the nature of the affection it enjoins. While by the phrase, thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, lively, strong and permanent feelings are demanded; the next phrase with all thy mind, or intellect, teaches that this love is to be rational, well-regulated, and such, in its causes and influences, as the soundest understanding may approve; and when it is added with all thy strength, we are told that it is to be practical, to influence our ordinary conduct, to direct our exertions and employ our strength in works of obedience and duty. This is the first commandment. It is so, because a devout regard to the Deity is the very foundation of all religion; because our obligations to the love of God are more numerous and more imperative, than to any other disposition or duty; and because this command is more comprehensive in its nature, more important and universal in its influence, and more beneficial in its effects, than any other can be. As a rule of conduct, the love of God will enter into every action, extend to feelings and to circumstances which laws cannot reach, and easily decide in cases too minute or too complicated for any general directions to solve. It furnishes, too, a motive, which waits not for deliberation or reasoning to call it into action, which influences where al...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217552202 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021755220X |
| Weight | 0.68 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.47 In |
| List Price | $22.15 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 204 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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