Author: Francis Hutchinson

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9781230068428

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1717 edition. Excerpt: ...yet, I thank God for it, hath occasioned no very Melancholy Reflections; but this perhaps is more owing to Natural Temper, than Philosophy and wife Considerations. Tour Case, I know, is very different, who are of a Temper naturally melancholy, and under a Distemper apt to increase it; for both which great Allowances ought to be made: And yet methinks, both Reason and Religion do offer us Considerations of that Solidity andStrength, as may very well Jupport our Spirits under all Frailties and Infirmities of the Flesh; such as these: That God is perfect Love and Goodness; that we are not only his Creatures, but his Children, and are as dear to him as to our selves; that he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the Children of Men; and that all Evils of Afflictions which befal us, are intended for the Cure and Prevention of greater Evils of Sin and Punishment; and therefore we ought not only to submit to them with Patience, as being deserved by us, but to receive them with Thankfulness, as being design'd by him to do us that good, and to bring us to that Sense of him and our selves which nothing else perhaps would have done. That the Sufferings of this present Life are but port and light, compared with those ex extreme und endless Miseries which we have deserved-, and with that exceeding Weight of Glory which we hope for in the other World, is we be careful to make the best Preparations for Death and Eternity. Whatever brings us nearer our Endf brings us nearer to our Happiness; and how rugged soever the Way be, the Comfort is, that it leads us to our Father's House, where we (ball want nothing we can wish'for. Now we labour under a dangerous Distemper, which threatens our Life; what would we not be contented to bear, in order to a perfect...

Download or read book The Life of the Most Reverend Father in God John Tillotson, Arch-Bishop of Canterbury; Compiled from the Minutes of the Reverend Mr. Young, Late Dean written by Francis Hutchinson and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1717 edition. Excerpt: ...yet, I thank God for it, hath occasioned no very Melancholy Reflections; but this perhaps is more owing to Natural Temper, than Philosophy and wife Considerations. Tour Case, I know, is very different, who are of a Temper naturally melancholy, and under a Distemper apt to increase it; for both which great Allowances ought to be made: And yet methinks, both Reason and Religion do offer us Considerations of that Solidity andStrength, as may very well Jupport our Spirits under all Frailties and Infirmities of the Flesh; such as these: That God is perfect Love and Goodness; that we are not only his Creatures, but his Children, and are as dear to him as to our selves; that he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the Children of Men; and that all Evils of Afflictions which befal us, are intended for the Cure and Prevention of greater Evils of Sin and Punishment; and therefore we ought not only to submit to them with Patience, as being deserved by us, but to receive them with Thankfulness, as being design'd by him to do us that good, and to bring us to that Sense of him and our selves which nothing else perhaps would have done. That the Sufferings of this present Life are but port and light, compared with those ex extreme und endless Miseries which we have deserved-, and with that exceeding Weight of Glory which we hope for in the other World, is we be careful to make the best Preparations for Death and Eternity. Whatever brings us nearer our Endf brings us nearer to our Happiness; and how rugged soever the Way be, the Comfort is, that it leads us to our Father's House, where we (ball want nothing we can wish'for. Now we labour under a dangerous Distemper, which threatens our Life; what would we not be contented to bear, in order to a perfect...