A Farewell Sermon

A Farewell Sermon - delivered on Sunday, October 23, A.D. 1842, at the Parish Church of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington

When time draws on to a close with us, the last opportunities should be carefully regarded and applied to some such purpose as may show what has been the chief aim and the main design of past endeavours. A sad thing it would be, indeed, if the last portion of our time were to be reserved for some single effort: for who can accomplish at one step that which a daily progress only can effect? They who enjoyed long lives of old time, indulged, it must be owned, in some complaints which showed more of the weakness of our common nature, than of that proficiency for which the loan of life, whatever p. 8may be the term of its duration, is bestowed. The good king Hezekiah poured his lamentation, when it should seem he had much cause to be contented with what God had wrought for him in his day. He called that the cutting off his days, which it may be thought he might have met with more complacency of mind, from the contemplation of the benefits which God had enabled him to procure for Israel: but if there was any token of infirmity in this, it was coupled with a pious mind, and the suit was therefore heard and granted. If David, too, seems sometimes querulous in his pleas for the enlargement of his days, yet he added a good and becoming reason for it, that he might show the power of God to that generation in which his eventful lot was cast, and make it known to those who were to come. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 64716
Author: Pott, Joseph Holden
Release Date: Mar 6, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English