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Seventeen discourses on several texts of Scripture
Seventeen discourses on several texts of Scripture Author:Robert Robinson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DISCOURSE III. WE OUGHT TO BE CONTENT WITH PROVIDENCE. PSALM xvi. 6. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places ; yea, I have a goodly heritage. ... more » (t True," says one of my hearers, " you had a goodly heritage, David ; and I would say of my lot, as you did of yours, had I a Jesse for my father, a Solomon for my son, a palace for my habitation, gold and silver in abundance, ability to write scripture, and hope in a joyful resurrection :" but, recollect, if David had a Jesse for his own father, he had a Saul for his father-in-law ; if he had one son a Solomon, he had others who were disobedient, rebellious, and wicked ; if he had a palace, he could not sometimes get an hour's rest in it ; he was " weary with groaning, made hia bed every night to swim, and watered his couch with his tears ;" if he had riches, and abilities, and religion, he had also a lady for his wife who ridiculed religion, and despised him for employing his wealth and abilities in the service of it. In a word, happiness is distributed among mankind much more equally than most men imagine. My design, this evening, is to convince you of this, to persuade you to apply the language of the text to your own lot, and so to engage you to ofier to Almighty God that noble evening sacrifice of content, gratitude, and praise. Do not suppose, I am insensible of your afflictions. How is it possible, that a man, like yourselves, subject to the same sickness and pain, and calamities, and death, should be blind to such events ? Even self-love obliges us to feel for others what we fear ourselves. I say more, I affirm that God himself " sees the alHiction of his people, heartheir cry, knows their sorrows, considers all the oppressions that are done under the sun, beholds the tears of the oppressed who have no comfor...« less