Discourses for the Pulpit Author:John Dupré General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1815 Original Publisher: printed by Brodie and Dowding and sold by Rivington [and 7 others] Subjects: Sermons, English Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books ed... more »ition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: DISCOURSE IT. Job. -- Ghap. 7. -- Verses 3 and 4. So am I made to possess months of vanity / and wearisome nights are appointed to me. When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone ? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. j OT long since I happened to be present in a company, where this petition in our Litany became the subject of conversation, " From " sudden death, good Lord, deliver us !" Some maintained that sudden death was desirable, and others the contrary. Much, certainly, may be said on each part of the question. Job, it is evident, was of the first opinion ; but then it was in the extremity of his pain and suffering : " Wearisome nights are appointed to me. Wheit''I He down, I say, When shall I arise, and " the night be gone ? And I am full of tossings 1 to aud fro unto the dawning of the day." He had earnestly wished for immediate death, as the only relief of his torments : for this seeming impatience he had been rebuked by his three friends, Eliphas, Bildad, and Zophar; and, therefore, in this chapter, he is willing to justify himself against their charge by arguments drawn from the sharp miseries which he endured. The following expressions amount to the same meaning; and are the indications of a mind almost pressed down by despair : " Let the day " perish wherein I was born, and the night iu " which it was said, There is a man-child con- " ceived. Why died I not from the womb ? " For now I should have lain still and been " quie...« less