Connexion of Sacred and Profane History: Being a Review of the Principal, Vol. 3 of 3 (Classic Reprint)

The whole history of man demonstrates the truth miiformly attested in the sacred Scriptures, that he can only enjoy rational happiness in the same proportion as he cultivates and attains to moral excellence. In every as and country, he experiences present misery, and the wriul apprehension of I ts perpettial increase and eternal duration, to be inseparable from subjection to the malignant and impure passions, and perseverance in such practices as manife Btly tend to produce disquietude, destruction, or despair in his own bosom, and distress and wretchedness to his species, and to every living thing. The vmses of sin, he truly finds to be death. Gwi is lovp, and in his good pleasure he purposed in himself to restore his disobedient race to conformity to his own likeneans and participation of his favour, which is life or hapmness, and of his loving-lcindness, which is better than life. This purpose he graciously revealed, when he announced his design to place the human race under the government of the r Deliverer, whom he had chosen to be head or ruler of all who should, in any ajge, voluntarily confide in him, and humbly obey him. Till he should appear on earth as the sovereign Lord of all, they who looked for him were Elaced under the government of certain individuals, to whom ecommitted the authority of deputies, responsible to him for the manner in which they acted for mm in the promotion of the interests of all who waited for him, and publicly worshipped the True and Living God.
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