Discourses Preached on Several Occasions (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Discourses Preached on Several OccasionsBut I go farther and this day publish, in the ears of our needy brethren, and of their children educated In George Heriot' S hospital f, a truth high ly important and interesting, yet too generally over looked, and seldom sufficiently considered and be lieved. True Christianity makes its poorest votaries, as it did the church Of Smyrna, whom persecution had reduced to poverty, and to whom my text im mediately relates, rich in enjoyments, and bestows on them many an hour of heartfelt, transporting de light. Eyes, blinded by irregular passions and ap petites, perceive not this. Religion, especially reli gion in rags, presents itself to their jaundiced Sight, in dark, gloomy, forbidding colours, with a head always bowed down, and a breast oppressed, with a melancholy countenance and a joyless heart. I am about to combat an error, which instigates many to abhor religion, and to ¿y from her. I am about to prove, that the most valued earthly possessions and enjoyments of the rich are equally bestowed on the poor, or, at least, are not placed out of their reach that many of the poor actually possess and enjoy spi ritual riches, with which the most wealthy stranger to religion cannot intermeddle, and that all of them have the means of obtaining the most substantial and durable riches.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.