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Lay Sermons; I. the Stateman's Manual. Ii. Blessed Are Ye That Sow Beside All Waters
Lay Sermons I the Stateman's Manual Ii Blessed Are Ye That Sow Beside All Waters Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1852 Original Publisher: E. Moxon Subjects: Religion History / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. I... more »t 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 books for free. Excerpt: A LAY SERMON, For he established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel; which, he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: that the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born ; who should arise and declare them to their children : that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God. -- Psalm Ixxviii. 5, 6, 7. If our whole knowledge and information concerning the Bible had been confined to the one fact of its immediate derivation from God, we should still presume that it contained rules and assistances for all conditions of men under all circumstances; and therefore for communities no less than for individuals. The contents of every work must correspond to the character and designs of the workmaster; and the inference in the present case is too obvious to be overlooked, too plain to be resisted. Itrequires, indeed, all the might of superstition to conceal from a man of common understanding the further truth, that the interment of such a treasure in a dead language must needs be contrary to the intentions of the gracious Donor. Apostasy itself dared not question the premisses: and that the practical consequence did not follow, is conceivable only under a complete system of delusion, which from the cradle to the death-bed ceases not to over-awe the will by obscure fears, while it preoccupies the senses by vi...« less