The Young Lady's Sunday Book

Seitenzahl:

180

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272 g

Erschienen bei:

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: sorrows, her pious resolutions, her self-distrust. It attracts Faith, with her elevated eyeHope, with her grasped anchorBeneficence, with her open handZeal, looking far and wide to serveHumility, with introverted eye, looking1 at home. Prayer, by quickening these graces in the heart, warms them into life, fits them for service, and dismisses each to its appropriate practice. Prayer is mental virtue: virtue is spiritual action. The mould into which genuine prayer casts the soul, is not effaced by the suspension of the act, but retains some touches of the impression till the act is repeated. Prayer, divested of the love of God, will obtain nothing-, because it asks nothing cordially. It is only the interior sentiment that gives life and spirit to devotion. To those who possess this, prayer is not only a. support, but a solace: to those who want it, it is not only an insipid task, but a religious penalty. Our apostle every where shows that purity of heart, resignation of spirit, peace and joy in believing, can, by no other expedient, be maintained in life, activity, and vigour. Prayer so circumstanced is the appointed means for drawing down the blessing we solicit, and the pardon we need. ON PROVIDENCE. It is not easy to conceive a more deplorable slate of mind, than to live in a disbelief ofGod's providential government of the world. To be threatened with troubles, and to see no power which can avert them; to be surrounded with sorrows, and discern no hand which can redress them; to labour under oppression or calumny, and believe there is no friend to relieve, and no judge to vindicate us; to live in a world, of which we believe its ruler has abdicated the throne, or delegated the direction to chance; to suspect that he has made over the triumph to injustice, and t...

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