Patriots in Arms, Addresses and Sermons of the Last Century in Praise of the Volunteer Movement, With an Intr. and Notes by T. Preston

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1881 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 books for free. Excerpt: CHRISTIAN PATKIOTISM. A SEEMON DELIVERED IN THE PAEISH CHURCH OP STOKE-NEWINGTON, OS OCCASION OP THE ATTENDANCE OF THE ARMED ASSOCIATION OF STOKE NEWINGTON AND ITS VICINITY, [Note 4.] AT DIVINB SERVICE ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER SI, 1798: GEOEGE GASKIN, D. D. XICTOK Of THAT PARISH, M OF ST. utM:'i GRACECHUBCn, IK THE CITY OF LONDON. SEEMON. " 0 pray for the peace of Jerusalem : they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls; and plenteousness within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions' sake, I will wish thee prosperity. Yea, because of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek to do thee good." -- Psalm cxxii. 6, 7, 8, 9. It has sometimes been objected against our holy religion, that a concern for the peace and prosperity of the world is altogether foreign to its true design; and that a good Christian ought not to suffer his thoughts, much less his passions and affections, to be engaged in so worthless a subject. The records of sacred writ do indeed abound with injunctions to guard us against the temptations of wealth, honours, and worldly pleasure; and they admonish us to undergo, with firmness and constancy of mind, the calamities and afflictions of life; but this proves nothing to the purpose. The general of an army exhorts his soldiers to bear with patience the fatigues of war, to despise its dangers, and, in the day of action, to press forward regardless of life itself. Victory, nevertheless, and thesweet enjoyment of peace is the true end of war; and the soldier, though he must not fear to die, yet should endeavour to live and conquer. Keligion is a spiritual ...