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Sermons on Various Practical Subjects. by T. Watson. to Which Is Prefixed a Brief Memoir of His Life and Writings [by C. Watson].
Sermons on Various Practical Subjects by T Watson to Which Is Prefixed a Brief Memoir of His Life and Writings - by C. Watson Author:Thomas Watson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1826 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: Hence diseases spring not from the dust, but are under the same wise direction. We account for them from infection in many cases; but who placed the object in this line of danger? who gave the direction to this infection, and its power? Even thjs cause, which proves satisfactory to some, yet is in general so circumstanced, as to be attended with insuperable difficulties. In the same family, where to our eyes all are equally exposed, yet individuals are selected ; the inr fection seizes upon one, and passes by another equally within its range, and equally exposed. This brings us back to the doctrine of the text, the most satisfactory, and perhaps the most philosophical, that afflictions come not forth of the dust. From whence then ? For the expression implies not, that there is no source, but that there must be some cause; and no cause so rational, and so perfectly satisfactory, as assigning the whole to God. Now, this very sacred writer, applies these directly to God, in other passages. When he was deprived of all his family ; when his sons and daughters wire eating and drinking rvine in their eldest brother s house, there came a great nind from the wilder ness, and smote the four corners of the house, which crushed in its fall, all his family. And this was the sequel of previous calamities, which had robbed him of all his earthly substance, and reduced him from being the richest man in all the east, to a state of the most abject poverty. He ascribes these calamities, not to his enemies, not to the violence of the elements, but to the appointment of the Supreme Governor. -- "Naked came I out of my mot...« less