A Manual for the Afflicted; Comprising a Practical Essay on Affliction, and a Series of Meditations and Prayers Selected and Arranged for the Use of ... Need, Sickness or Any Other Adversity - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832. Excerpt: ... ON THE PRIVILEGE AND DUTY OF PRAYER, ESPECIALLY IN SEASONS OF AFFLICTION. A soul IK Commerce With Her God, is heaven! Prayib ardent opens heaven, lets down a stream Of glory on the consecrated hour Of man, in audience with the Deity. Who worships the Great God, that instant joins The first in heaven, and sets his foot on hell. Youkc. ':o Of all the duties and privileges of the Chris tian Life, Prayer is unquestionably the most important. It is the very soul of all true Religion, and the channel through which God ordinarily confers his grace upon us. It is the key of the treasures of heaven, and the surest way to obtain peace of mind: and, since it is put into our hands, we have no longer to deplore our indigence. At the same time, it is an act of grace and, highest honour, that we--dust and ashes are, admitted,to speak to the Eternal God, to run to Him as to a Father, to lay open our wants and to complain of our burthens. Nothing can supply the absence of prayer. In vain are we surrounded with all the means of salvation;--in vain is our weakness strengthened by every possible support,--instructions, examples, counsels, devotional reading, meditation, and the divinely instituted means of grace, especially the participation of those holy mysteries which our Master and only Saviour Jesus Christ hath ordained as pledges of His Love, to our great and endless comfort. With all these means together, if we live in the habitual disregard of prayer--or if our prayers be faint and feeble--we must remain in all the moral languor of our fallen nature. We may have frequent conversation with men of eminent zeal and piety; but man can speak only to the mind of man. It is God alone, who speaks to the heart, when supplicated aright in prayer. We may, by reading, acquire a ...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217431372
- ISBN 13 9780217431378
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages58
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