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. 1836 Excerpt: ...affections towards heaven; it teaches them "not to lay up treasures upon earth,' but to secure them "in heaven; for where their treasure is, there will their hearts be also." It enjoins them to "set their affections on things above,. not on things on earth;" "not to love the world, neither the things that are in the world, because if any man love the world, the love of ihe Father is not in him." These exhortations, to which many more might be added of a similar import, sufficiently elucidate the essential character and object of the Christian religion; but when you are told of men, who, in utter disregard of them, "mind earthly things," in what light can you view them, but as men who dare to commit one sweeping act of blasphemy against the whole? While the open excesses of debauchery are subject to various restraints which serve to check their perpetration, the guilt of worldliness, appearing less flagrant and disgusting, and admitting numerous pleas to excuse its indulgence, prevails to a vast extent. Many would shrink from the practice of the one who rank among the devoted slaves of the other. It possesses an influence even over the best, and has produced, in the present age particularly, a mournful degree of deterioration of character in the church of God. And how numerous are those who are following its full and unsubdued impulse! Can we pass along the path, of life, without beholding multitudes innumerable, who arc seeking their portion below! Who are they who rise earty and sit up late, and eat the bread of carefulness; whose actions are a perpetual commentary on the words, "to-day, or to-morrow, we will go into such a city, and buy and sell and get gain;" who are intent only on calculations of pr...
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