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Sermons Preached to a Country Congregation (1); To Which Are Added, a Few Hints for Sermons; Intended Chiefly for the Use of the Younger Clergy
Sermons Preached to a Country Congregation To Which Are Added a Few Hints for Sermons Intended Chiefly for the Use of the Younger Clergy - 1 Author:William Gilpin Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1822 Original Publisher: T. Cadell Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Sermons / General Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christian Ministry / Preaching Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illus... more »trations 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: .' I. !' HI J'l . . . . . -,.' "I. i ": ')' I f, . '. If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye d them- -- John, xiii. 17. Consider, first, the necessity of knowing these things; and secondly, the necessity of doing them. In every art, trade, or profession, we must first know what we are to do, before we can do it. It is so in religion : but, God be thanked, the knowledge of religion lies in a very narrow compass. Though it takes up time to learn an a't, or profession, yet the lowest amongst us may easily obtain sufficient knowledge of religion, for all the purposes of life. The great difficulty lies in the second point we are to consider -- not in knowing these things, but in doing them. In every thing, as well as in religion, practice is the end of knowledge : without it knowledge is useless. But what is singular in religious practice, it is'the best way of gaining religious knowledge. If you apply every little knowledge you gain, to practice, you t will soon become a greater proficient in religious knowledge, than if you had applied yourself with the greatest attention to the knowledge of it, and left the practice of it out of the question. If any man will do God's will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God. -- Besides, we are not so liable to error in practice, as we are in knowledge. Right and wrong are much clearer ideas, than truth and falsehood. A well-intentioned mind may be led ...« less