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A Series of Familiar Discourses for Every Sunday and Festival of the Year (Volume 1)

A Series of Familiar Discourses for Every Sunday and Festival of the Year (Volume 1)

Peach, Edward

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General World History

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ISBN10: 123560408X
ISBN13: 9781235604089
Publisher: General Books
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.19 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. 1827. Excerpt: ... 277 FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT. ON THE GIFTS OF GOD. When. Jesus, therefore, had lifted up his eyes, and seen that a very great multitude cometh to him, he said to Philip, whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat? John vi. 5. The solicitude which our Lord expressed, in the above words, to relieve the corporal wants of those who came to hear his instructions, and the miraculous interposition of his power to provide a sufficiency, on that occasion, reminds us of the goodness which God is pleased to show to us during our sojournment in this land of exile, and of the debt of gratitude which is due to him on our parts. Separated as we are from the visible presence of the great Dispenser of all good, we 'feel within ourselves a kind of impulse, to look upon the production of things that are for our subsistence, either as the pure workings of nature, or as the fruits of our own labour, without any reference to the power of him, who is the real Creator of them. But we are here reminded that he, who multiplied a small quantity of food, so as to suffice for the refreshment of a comparatively immense multitude, is the same, by whom is produced the annual multiplication of the fruits of the earth, and from whose bountiful hand it is, that we receive all that constitutes, and that supports our earthly frame. When we attentively survey our relative situation, we cannot but be convinced that all we have, comes from God. Of ourselves we are nothing. We are entirely in the hands of our great Creator. It is in him that we lice, and move, and exist. (Acts xvii.) In his arms, we possess infinitely less power than the child of one day old in the arms of its parents. We cannot live, even for one instant, without his fostering care. Consequential and great, as we may appear to ...

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