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Letters Addressed to the Daughter of a Nobleman
Letters Addressed to the Daughter of a Nobleman Author:Elizabeth Hamilton 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: 39 LETTER III. Under a full conviction of the advantages that result from having a clear, distinct and comprehensive view of divine revelation presented to... more » the mind of youth, I shall in the prosecution of my plan endeavour to simplify the subject as much a possible. I am nevertheless still sensible that in order to embrace these general views, the faculties must be exerted with a degree of vigour, such as I cannot now expect my dearest Lady Elizabeth to possess. Some passages will, I am persuaded, excite attention ; but the unremitted attention necessary to grasp the whole, it may not be in your power to command. "You must therefore return to it, and byrepetition you will impress it upon your mind. I beg you to recollect how many things, that at first view appeared totally above your comprehension-, you by degrees got so thoroughly acquainted with, as to wonder how you could have remained so long in ignorance concerning them. Recollect how much you used to delight, when, in comparing your present ideas with the past, you were sensible of the acquisitions you had made, especially with regard to such branches of knowledge as had at first appeared most difficult ; and let the remembrance of these circumstances encourage you to apply your mind to the subject now before you, which is of infinitely more importance than any in which you can engage. We have already seen that the revelation which God dispensed to Abraham was clear and definite; but we have no reason to believe that it was attended with any very extraordinary display of the divine majesty. The events foretold could only have been foreseen by divine omniscience, they could only have been accomplished by divine power: Abraham had a full conviction that they were revealed by God, and this conviction was aff that was r...« less