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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. 1826 edition. Excerpt:...for the success of our worldly affairs; but trusting for that success (with tranquillity and confidence) in God's good pleasure;--thinking (not only without fear, but with gladness) that we are always in the presence of God; believing that God's mercy will pardon our sins; and through this belief, rejoicing in his presence and power over us. This is the true spirit of the Christian life; and in conforming to this, to the utmost of our power, we may so pass through the temptations and troubles of this world, that we may depart in peace when our hour is come. 16. Whilst you live without God in the world, you are the continual sport of fortune, and a prey to the injustice, the malignity, and the evil designs of men. Your unrestrained passions expose you to those of others, and your unbridled desires associate you in their crimes: Your pride and self-love (which are incompatible with those of your neighbour) foam and swell against opposition, like the billows of the angry ocean, and occasion you a thousand shipwrecks. You exist in constant warfare with all around you, and know not where to rest. Is this a state (even with worldly prosperity) to be preferred to the holy hope, the divine calm, the conscious trust in Providence, possessed by that soul, which, having renounced its self-love, and restrained its passions, walks humbly with its God?--View the world as it now is, and as it has ever been, and you will find, that, according as forgetfulness of God and irreligion prevail, such has been, and such will ever be, the evil state of society. Behold all the children of Adam serving as instruments of punishment to each other --See the one-half of mankind rendered miserable by the other, who equally oppress them in their turn --Behold, in every...