Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-12-07

i to let him into heaven.
Gorth says: The best thing we
get from history, is the enthusiasm
that it raises in US.
Whitfield thinks it best not to dis
pute where there is no probability
of convincing.
1t is because we are dissatisfied
with ourselves, that we are anxious
TO have others think well of us.
Temperance is corporal piety; it
is the preservation of divine order
in the body.
Take fast hold of instruction, let
her not go; keep her; for she is thy
life.
Bishop Whately says: 1t is one
thing TO wish to have truth on our
side, and another to wish to be on
the side of truth.
The genuine Christian will not
forget to thank God for mercies past
ms well as ask blessings for the time
TO come.
The Psalmist prays: Lord, make
lilt " klON AliAAlC GAlNJ anu NiAG AAAGlLo-
ure of my days, what it is; that
may know how frail am.
The meek shall eat and be salts
fed: they shall praise the Lord that
seek him; your heart shall live for
ever.
The divine glory is not the pro-
fession of his excellent attributes in
an infinite degree, but the disply
thereof in their extent and har-
mony.
All that is in the heaven and in
the earth is his; God is the Maker,
Preserver and GoYernor-the SUI
preme and sole proprietor of the
universe.
The just have this assurance
No weapon that is formed against
thee shall prosper; and every tongue
that shall rise against thee in judg-
ment thou shalt condemn.
The great central truth of chris
tianjty is, that Jesus Christ the
righteous died for sinners, and thus
made . way for thom 10 return TO
God.
God must have some character
still greater than that of creator, to
unfold to the creatures he preserves
in a state of such ungratefull re-
belliOn.
Seneca says: He that visits the
sick in hopes of legacy, let him be
never so friendly on all other occa-
sions, look upon him in this, to be no
better than theraven, that watches
a weak sheep only to peck out his
eyes.
Adversely exasperstes fools, de-
jects towards, draws out the facul-
ties of the wise and indu strious,
puts the modest to the necessity of
trying their skill, awes the opnlent,
and makes the idle Industrious.
Sheridan says; Wit looses its re-
speet with the good when seen in
company with malice; and to smile
at jest which plants thorn in the
breast Of another, is to become a
principal in the mischief.
The Christian is thus encouraged
by Isaiah: Fear thou not; for l am
thy God; will strengthen thee: yea,
Twill help thee; yea, l will uphold
thee with the right hand OF nv
righteousness.
Omnipotent Justice how glorious
art thou; who canst vindicate thy
self in the effusion of love upon the
guilt, and transform these awful
decisions into the warnings of pa
rental affection towards abject apos-
tates.
The goodness of God is past find
ing out. o, let our hearts rejoice
in this blessed article of our reli-
gion; and may all the temptations
we may encounter from men of rea-
son, never, never battle so sweet a
faith.
By the glory of God, must be
meant, not the excellent attributes
of his nature only, but the degree
thereof, whereby he is distinguished
from, and raised infinitely above,
sll his creatures and all his works.
How cold is the heart, and how
dull the understanding of the man,
who, contemplating the magnificent
spectacle of the heavens, feels no
pious emotions arising in his breast,
and is completely absorbed in the
speculations of science.
Alas that in this enlightened age,
there should be so many to whom
the severe, but well founded re-
mark of an inspired writer, con-
corning the sages of antiquity, may,
with too much justice, be APP
piled: processing themselves to be
wise, they became fools"
The Gospel is a true Bethesda,
a pool of grace, where such poor,
lame, and intirm creatures as we
are, upon the moving of Gods spir-
il, may descend down, not only to
wash our skin and outside, but also
TO be cured our diseases within.
Blessed, indeed, are they, whose
iniquities are forgiven, and whose
sins are covered; blessed is the man
TO whom the Lord will not impute
sin; but yet, rather blessed are they,
whose sins are like a morning
closed, and quite taken away from
them.
Who, that has spark of allegi-
ance TO the supreme authority, viii
not, from the bottom of his soul,
breathe out the wish: ''Be thou eX-
allied, o God, above the heavens;
let thy glory be aboye all the earth.
Let all the earth fear the Lord; let
all the inhabitants of the world |
stand in awe of him."
We have no warrant in scripture |
to peep into the hidden rolls and |
volumes of eternity; and to make |
it our first object, when we come |
TO Christ, TO spell out our names in |
the stars: and TO persuade ourselves
that we are certainly elected to ever /
lasting happiness, before we see the |
image of God, in righteousness and /
true holiness, shaped in our hearts. |
IL is far safer add easier for Us, to I
lool, upOn the rays of Gods good |
ness and holiness, as they are re- /
elected in our hearts; and then to 1
rcad the mild and gentle characters
of His love to us, IN our love to him
and our hearty compliance with his
heavenly will; as it is safer for us,
If we would see the sun, to look up
on it here below, in a pail of water,
than to cast up our daring eyes, up
on the body of the sun itself, which
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