Select Pieces; From the Practical and Devotional Writings of the Eminently Pious and Learned Bishop Hall. to Which Is Prefixed, a Memoir of the Author - Softcover
Synopsis
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. 1838. Excerpt: ... less trouble thee to be accounted vile by others. A man of a high heart in a low place, cannot but be discontented; while a man of lowly mind can swallow and digest contempt, without any difficulty; for wherein can he be the worse for being contemned, who from a consciousness of his own deserts, has been accustomed most of all to contemn himself. I should be very improvident, if as a christian I did not look for daily contempt; seeing we are made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men. When it comes therefore, I will either embrace or contemn it; embrace it, when it is within my measure; when above, contemn it. I will so embrace it that I may humble myself under it, and so contemn it that I may not give heart to him that offers, nor disgrace him for whose cause I am despised. » t iJii Presumption and Despair. Chiiist raised three dead men to life; one newly departed, another on the bier, and a third putrifying in the grave; to shew us that no degree of death is so desperate as to be past help. My sins are many and great; yet if they were more, they are far below the mercy of him that hath remitted them, and the value of his ransom that hath paid for them. A man hurts himself most by presumption; but we cannot do God a greater wrong than to despair of forgiveness. It is a double injury to God; first, that we offend his justice by sinning; then, that we wrong his mercy with despairing. Life and Death. For a man to be weary of the world through the miseries he meets with, and on that account to dare death, is neither difficult nor commendable; but rather argues a base weakness of mind. It is a cowardly part, to contemn the utmost of all terrible things, in the fear of a lingering misery. But for a man, either living happily here on earth, or r...
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