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compared with the generous expectation of a Being without end, | compared with the generous expectation of a Being without end, | ||
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| + | It is the great art and secret of Christianity, if I may use that phrase, | ||
| + | to manage our actions to the best advantage, and direct them in such | ||
| + | a manner, that every thing we do may turn to account at that great | ||
| + | day, when every thing we have done will be set before us. | ||
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| + | In order to give this consideration its full weight, we may cast | ||
| + | all our actions under the division of such as are in themselves either | ||
| + | good, evil, or indifferent. If we divide our intentions after the same manner, | ||
| + | and consider them with regard to our actions, we may discover that | ||
| + | great art and secret Religion which I have here mentioned. | ||
Latest revision as of 16:16, 18 June 2019
worthy thoughts are likewise the consequence of worthy actions: But the wretch who has degraded himself below the character of Immortality, is very willing to resign his pretensions to it, and substitute in its room a dark negative happiness in the extinction of his Being.
I shall not pursue this thought farther, but only add, that as annihilation is not to be had with a wish, so it is that the most abject thing in the world to wish it. What are honour, fame, wealth, or power, when compared with the generous expectation of a Being without end, and a happiness adequate to that Being?
It is the great art and secret of Christianity, if I may use that phrase, to manage our actions to the best advantage, and direct them in such a manner, that every thing we do may turn to account at that great day, when every thing we have done will be set before us.
In order to give this consideration its full weight, we may cast all our actions under the division of such as are in themselves either good, evil, or indifferent. If we divide our intentions after the same manner, and consider them with regard to our actions, we may discover that great art and secret Religion which I have here mentioned.
