Essays and meditations on various subjects / By a physician [i.e. J. Mackenzie].
- James Mackenzie
- Date:
- 1762
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Essays and meditations on various subjects / By a physician [i.e. J. Mackenzie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![h wr] partake of, or delight in fuch enter- tainments ! SHALL it be faid, that the Almigh- ty will himfelf change their minds in- {tantaneoufly, and make habitual fin-. ners become holy in a moment, with- out any previous repentance? We do not difpute the omnipotence of God, or that he can from flones raifle up chil- dren to Abraham. But if it be probable that God ever will, by an act of power, change an impenitent finner into a faint, why are we defired to work out our falvation with fear and trembling 2 Why are we commanded by God to be holy, for he is holy? Why are we told the foul that finneth, he fhall die? And why have we catalogues given us in {cripture, of fins which are exprefly de- clared to exclude men from the king- dom of heaven? In fhort, if men may commit what wickednels they pleafe, and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33005291_0145.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
