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The Great Duty of Self-Resignation to the Divine Will, Revised by the Author's Son, J. Worthington, With the Author's Character by Archbishop
The Great Duty of SelfResignation to the Divine Will Revised by the Author's Son J Worthington With the Author's Character by Archbishop Author:John Worthington Title: The Great Duty of Self-Resignation to the Divine Will, Revised by the Author's Son, J. Worthington, With the Author's Character by Archbishop Tillotson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1826 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or miss... more »ing 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 books for free. Excerpt: SECT. I. CONSIDERATIONS RECOMMENDING THE DUTY OF SELF-RESIGNATION TO OUR MOST SERIOUS AND DILIGENT PRACTICE. CHAP. I. That it is the lam of our creation, bothjirst and second. The consideration of God as a second creator shown mightily to enforce our engagement to this duty, upon a fourfold account. Self-resignation is the law of our creation ; our necessary condition and property, both as we are creatures, and as new creatures; as we are made, and as we are renewed after God's image. It is not a new thing, introduced first by Christ; it is not an institution peculiar to the times of the gospel, so that for almost four thousand years man was not obliged to it: but it is our unchangeable property, arising from our dependence upon Ged, and relation to him. There is a law written within us, that requires this; nor can any thing free us from our obligation hereunto. We were made by God for himself; and therefore must needs be under an eternal obligation to yield universal obedience to him. This is an " old commandment, which man had from the beginning,"c as St. John speaks of love; it is rooted in, and interwoven with, his very being: all the duties enjoined therein are branches of the everlasting righteousness, and are of an eternal and unchangeable nature. c 1 John ii. 7. It is the character of angels ; that they " do his commandments, hearkening to the voice of his word;" and that they " do his will :" and the self-resignation of angels, the...« less