Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
I have ever deemed it one of the most favourable circumstances of my life, that your Ladyship condescended to honour my early youth with your kind countenance and protection. Your amiable character, and exemplary virtues, have always thrown such a lustre around you, as could n...
I have ever deemed it one of the most favourable circumstances of my life, that your Ladyship condescended to honour my early youth with your kind countenance and protection. Yo...
2. Part 2Who would not wish, then, to become a votary, a pupil, a child of Wisdom? But how is this privilege to be obtained? what path must we pursue, that will lead us to her delightful...
3. Part 3Sensual pleasure, vain mirth, and jovial company, are not quite consistent with the precepts of the Gospel of CHRIST: but a few innocent amusements can do no harm; and it is but...
4. Part 4The preceding part of this chapter presents us with an awful and instructive example of the fatal consequences which result from an unbelief or distrust of the providential powe...
5. Part 5Thou hast mistaken death for life, misery for happiness, time for eternity! Thy will and affections have been fixed upon objects of unreal bliss; turned from thy GOD, the true a...
6. Part 6This answer abundantly evinceth the truth of the observation above-mentioned, that our state depends entirely upon the inward exercise of our will or desires. A sensibility of d...
7. Part 7Suspend thy judgment, poor partial observer! reason not from appearances. Inward darkness, and distress, and anguish, are the proper inlets through which the CHRIST OF GOD is re...
8. Part 8All these powers, virtues, and enjoyments, are thine; thine by the Free Gift of GOD in CHRIST JESUS, imparted to thee; and made thine, at the very moment the "Seed of the Woman"...
9. Part 9To suffer, therefore, is to triumph; to be distressed, is our glorious privilege; to "be weary and heavy-laden," is the only way to rest and happiness! Sure I am, that there are...
10. Part 10Tell me, ye favoured souls! who have been "called out of darkness into the marvellous light of GOD;" who have experienced his "Peace, that passeth all understanding;" who have r...
11. Part 11No man, in his present deplorable state, can open that eye which was blinded by sin; nor unstop that ear which was sealed by his apostasy from his Maker; nor save or deliver him...
12. Part 12An edict is issued by Augustus Cæsar, enjoining all the subjects of the Roman empire to repair to their several cities, in order to have their names enrolled for a general taxat...