Reflections on the Goodness of God to a Nation Three Score and Ten Years Old: A Sermon Preached in the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Albany, on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 1853 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Reflections on the Goodness of God to a Nation Three Score and Ten Years Old: A Sermon Preached in the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Albany, on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 1853

We are by no means sure that the Psalmist, in this passage, has reference merely to those works and thoughts which place in our possession what we usually call blessings; that is, things agreeable in their nature, and associated in our minds with enjoyment. He calls them wonderful; but this is an attribute which may be ascribed to judgment as well as mercy; and to judgment, moreover, whether it be mere chastisement, designed to reform, and be in the end a benefit, or irretrievable overthrow: to correct and bring smiles at last where lids are moistened, and cheeks are channeled by tears, or to punish with ruin dire.

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