A Sermon Preached at the Gravel Pit Meeting, in Hackney, April 19th, 1793, Being the Day Appointed for a General Fast |
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Page 5 - , though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midft of the fea ; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled; though the mountains Jhake with thefwelling thereof.
Page 36 - It is not difficult to foresee what other questions the superior being would ask, and probably the first of these would be, the duration of the lives of these little beings, and the length and frequency of their wars? It would be replied to this, that their lives were but as a vapour, which appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away, and that a quarter, and sometimes half of their time on earth, was spent in those destructive pursuits.
Page 28 - Thefe are my real and earneft fentiments upon thefe points. It would be great rafhnefs to fix a time for the breaking of the ftorm that hangs over our heads, as it is blindnefs and infatuation not to fee it ; nor to be aware, that it may break. And yet this infatuation has always attended all falling ftates. The kingdoms of Judah and Ifrael, which are the types of all the reft, were thus infatuated. It may be, that the prophecies concerning Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, Egypt, &c. will...
Page 15 - SAM. xxv. 143 2 SAM. xxi. i. Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year ; and David inquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites 147 2 SAM. xxiv. i. And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah ijjo i KINGS xiii.
Page 6 - He maketh wars to cease unto the ends of the earth: He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariot in the fire.
Page 13 - ... independent immortality ! Eternal God ! we bow before thee as the Supreme Disposer of all events. Believing that nothing can come to pass through the whole extent of thy works, without thy knowledge and influence, we desire to learn well the lesson thou art now teaching us. Thou doest thy will in the armies of heaven above, and among the inhabitants of the earth below. None can stay thine hand, or say unto thee, What doest thou ? Thou hast been pleased, in great wisdom and in awful justice, to...
Page 1 - God is our refuge and ** ftrength, a very prefent help in trouble...
Page 22 - ... carry him. Now therefore, fays he to them, (Gen. xlv. 5) be not grieved, nor angry with yourf elves, that ye. fold me hither: for God fent me before you to preferve life, to preferve youa pojterity in the earth.