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Fifteen Sermons Upon Contentment and Resignation to the Will of God, as Also 2 Sermons on the Ministration of Angels
Fifteen Sermons Upon Contentment and Resignation to the Will of God as Also 2 Sermons on the Ministration of Angels Author:Simon Patrick General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1719 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 edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Devotion have been fo well received, that the Bookfellers think it a confide- table Recommendation of thefe Dif- courfes, and the Prayers annexed to them, that they can alfore the World, they are the . Genuine Works of that Excellent Prelate, and printed with great Care and Exactnefs from his own Manufcript. They have alfo been afTured by their Friends who have perufed thefe Sermpns, that as Mens being contented in all Eft ate s of Life, is a Matter of . great Confcquence to their Happinefs, fo the Reader will here find the Duty of Contentment very fully treated of, and recommended with all that Cleafnefs and Strength of Reafoning, and with all that Learning and true Piety, which might be expected in fo Celebrated an Author, writing upon fo Important a Subject. THE C SERMON I Heb. XIII. 5. - Be content with fitch Things as ye have '. H E $ E Converted Jews being tinder great Perfecution by their unbelieving Countrymen, (as we read in feveral Places of this Epiflle) there were many of them, as may be gathered alfb from fundi-y Paflages in it, that began to think of retiring back again to their Old Religion, rather than endure fo many Hardihips in their new Pfofeflion, for Chrift Jefus his Sake. To prevent which fatal Mifcarriagc, this Divine Writer tiles many Arguments; encouraging and ftrcngthning their Minds, from the Confideration of the Certainty of the Chriflian Doctrine, the Dignity of its Author, the glorious Example he had fet before them, the Power he had in the Heavens, which made him an High-Priefl of a better Rank than any of the Houfe of Aaron could be; and the Hope of Eternal Life,...« less