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Farewell to Time, or Last Views of Life, and Prospects of Immortality, by the Author of 'the Morning and Evening Sacrifice'.
Farewell to Time or Last Views of Life and Prospects of Immortality by the Author of 'the Morning and Evening Sacrifice' Author:Thomas Wright General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1828 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: III. THAT THE PLAN OF PROVIDENCE, IN SO FAR AS WE CAN TRACE IT, IS THAT OF BRINGING GOOD OUT OF EVIL. Rom. viii. 28. All things work together for good. It would be consolatory only to know that goodness and tender mercy have characterized the more prominent features of that scheme amidst which we find ourselves placed -- but our security and comfort must be incalculably increased, when., upon a nearer survey of life, we perceive that kindness has characterized even those parts of the Divine dispensations that to us seemed, at the time of their occurrence, to be most dark and unaccountable -- and that thus, so far from being exceptions to the general scheme, they but evince, when properly estimated, the boundless beneficence and complete unity of design by which the entire system of the Divine government is pervaded. '. Thus the sorrows and hardships of our youthful years only prepared us for the honours and happiness of more advanced life -- sufferings which tried our maturer strength to the uttermost, and the purpose of which seemed to be covered, from our view, at the time, by a veil of mystery, have in every instance been perceived -- if we have had sufficient experience of their effects -- to have had some good and wise connexion with important portions of our history which were afterwards to be evolved -- and we have thus learnt, or might have learnt, as we advanced in life, that our own murmurings have been, in every instance, but proofs of our own folly -- and that nothing could have been more hurtful to us than to have had our wishes granted, in any of the instances, in which the Father of...« less