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The Warnings of Advent. a Course of Sermons Preached in the Church of St. Bartholomew, Moor Lane, Cripplegate, in Advent, Mdccclii.
The Warnings of Advent a Course of Sermons Preached in the Church of St Bartholomew Moor Lane Cripplegate in Advent Mdccclii Author:Advent General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1853 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: SERMON IV. THE LAW AND THE WAGES OF SPIRITUAL WORK. Phil. ii. 12, 13. " Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God Which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure." Work is one consequence of Adam's fall: Labour is a part of that blighting curse which sin brought upon the earth: Daily Toil is a portion of the punishment inflicted for the first man's disobedience. And so from that hour in which Adam said, "I was afraid" -- perpetual toil, ceaseless labour, incessant work, has been the lot of all the children of Adam. And it is so still. Man's work has indeed been lightened, but it is not lessened: human skill and human ingenuity have done much to relieve men of the toil of their labour; but they have either failed to decrease its amount, or they have succeeded in increasing man's sorrow and distress because he cannot find work to do ; as if God should say, Thy cunning contrivances, O man, shall not defeat My law, " in sorrow shalt thou eat of [the ground] all the days of thy life :" as if Satanshould say, I have provoked the curse, and now I will take care to make it heavy; I know that one day " there shall be no more curse," but while it remaineth " it shall indeed be felt." Brethren, does not all around us declare this to be a truth ? Go where you will, and what else do you perceive ? look where you choose, and what else can you discover ? Every where you see proofs of labour, or you find men ill at ease, or in misery, from the lack of labour. Take if you choose the peasant or the artisan, the farmer or the tradesman, the manufacturer or the merchant, the ...« less