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Miscellaneous Tracts on Religious, Political, and Agricultural Subjects (1); In Two Volumes
Miscellaneous Tracts on Religious Political and Agricultural Subjects In Two Volumes - 1 Author:Richard Watson Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1815 Original Publisher: T. Cadell and W. Davies Subjects: Sermons, English Religion / Sermons / General Religion / Sermons / Christian Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. ... more » 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: SERMON VI. Preached before The Bible Society, at St. Bride's, Fleet-street, gth February 1800. 2 Tim. i, 10. BUT IS NOW MADE MANIFEST? BY THE APPEARANCE OF OUR SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, WHO HATH ABOLISHED DEATH, AND HATH BROUGHT LIFE AND IMMORTALITY TO LIGHT THROUGH THE GOSPEL. HHHE expectation of a life after this - is so common a thing amopgst Christians, that we are apt to think the discovery of it to be a matter of no great difficulty ; we seem to suppose that all mankind are and ever have been as much persuaded of it as we ourselves are, and like the other great blessings of Providence, Providence, such as light, and air, and rain, and food, and sleep, it is overlooked for it's being common. Now and then, indeed, when sickness excites our attention, and our sins alarm our consciences, we endeavour to quiet their apprehensions by an expectation of a very different sort, by an hope that the nature of man is similar in all it's parts to that of the beast of the field. We see that they are both propagated in the same way, both nourished by the same food, that both grow up from infancy to maturity, that both become infirm and old, and go down into the pit together, where the bodies of both are in a short time reduced to the same principles; and hence in an evil hour we endeavour to argue ourselves into a belief, that the spirits which animate them both are of the same stamp, both annihilated by death. This subject, of life and immortality being brought to lig...« less