Inhaltsangabe
Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1862. Excerpt: ... LECTURE I. EXPEDIENCY AND BENEFIT OF FORMS OF PRAYER. Acts ii., 42.--" And they continued steadfastly in the Apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and In Praters.' In all the appointments of Almighty God in reference to His visible Church, we find the greatest caution exercised against a common and dangerous infirmity of human nature,--I mean the passion for excitement and novelty, and the changes and confusions which that temper, if unrestrained, must necessarily lead to. We readily perceive that the Hebrew ritual was framed and directed by some such precaution as this. God's ancient people were surrounded with idolaters,--with nations who manifested, in their religious belief and worship, the grossest error and impurity; and to protect them against the danger of such pollutions, it was necessary to fence his Church, if we may say so, with the strictest and most inviolable safeguards. Their priesthood, therefore, was established and regulated by Divine authority; and their ritual and worship was framed by the same infallible direction. Every thing that pertained to their manner of worshipping God, was taken out of their hands and maintained in His own. He devised and laid before them, in reference to this sacred matter, what he knew what would best promote His own glory, and their highest welfare. He did not leave the manner of conducting the awful mysteries of religion, to their own inclinations and caprices. They could not remove their Priests and Levites from the sacred position in which God had placed them, and elect others, at their will, in their room; nor could they alter one tittle of the holy worship He had appointed, without incurring His severest displeasure. We can hardly fail, my brethren, to admit that there has been a sympathetic tie between th...
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