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Discourses on Various Subjects (Volume 1)

Discourses on Various Subjects (Volume 1)

Taylor, Jeremy

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Religion General General World History

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ISBN10: 1235629465
ISBN13: 9781235629464
Publisher: General Books
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.30 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817. Excerpt: ... SERMON XIX. APPLES OF SODOM; OR, THE FRUITS OF SIN. PART I. ROMANS, VI. 21. What Fruit had ye then in those Things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the End of those Things is Death. THE son of Sirach did prudently advise concerning making judgments of the felicity or infelicity of men: judge none blessed before his death; for a man shall be known in his children. Some men ' raise their fortunes from a cottage to the chairs of princes, from a sheep-cot to a throne, and dwell in the circles of the sun, and in the lap of prosperity; their wishes and success dwell under the same roof, and Providence brings all events into their design, and ties both ends together with prosperous successes; and even the little conspersions and intertextures of evil accidents in their lives, are but like a feigned note of musick, by an artificial dis Eccles. xi: 28. cord making the ear covetous, and then pleased with the harmony into which the appetite was enticed by passion, and a pretty restraint; and variety does but adorn prosperity, and make it of a sweeter relish, and of more advantages; and some of these men descend into their graves without a change of fortune. Eripitur persona, manet res. Indeed they cannot longer dwell upon the estate, but that remains unrirled, and descends upon their heir, and all is well till the next generation: but if the evil of his death, and the change of his present prosperity for an intolerable danger of an uncertain eternity, does not sour his full chalice; yet if his children prove vicious, or degenerate, cursed, or unprosperous, we account the man miserable, and his grave to be strewed with sorrows and dishonours. The wise and valiant Chabrias grew miserable by the folly of his son Ctesiphus; and the reputation of brave Germanicus began ...

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