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World's Religion as Contrasted with Genuine Christianity

World's Religion as Contrasted with Genuine Christianity

Colquhoun, Janet Sinclair

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1151450324
ISBN13: 9781151450326
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.09 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. 1851. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. THE CAPACITY TO TASTE JOY. Chief distinction between the worldly and religious--The sou must be formed for happiness ere it can receive it--Joy in God alone satisfying--Men of the world incapacitated to taste joy--This incapacity tends to, and is a capacity for, misery--Consolatory thought to believers--Capacity for joy may be given where, for a time, little joy Is experienced--This state seldom of long continuance--Christians should exert their capacity to taste joy--Affecting state of those who are destitute of it--It should be sought--Essential of true joy. Should fate command me to the farthest verge Of the green earth, to distant barbarous climes, Rivers unknown to song; 'tis nought to me; Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full; And where He vital breathes there must be joy.1' Having considered the Christian as in a state of warfare with evil propensities, and as born from above to delight in holiness, it becomes apparent, that the distinction between the people of the world and the children of God's kingdom, is no slight, superficial, outward semblance; no observance of rites orceremonies; nothing that is trivial or unimportant. It is not even the conduct that forms the chief difference between these classes; it is the peculiar properties of the heart that distinguishes them, whence the tenor of the life naturally flows. All men act according to the feelings that influence them. We do not gather grapes of thorns, nor figs of thistles; wherefore, by their fruits we know them. But as the heart alone forms the character, a change in any man, to be radical and durable, must be there; and it is thence that every effect in the life emanates. The removal of that distance and estrangement from God, or, it ...

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