The good way is the old way; or the love of novelty in religion censured. A sermon preached in the chapel of the Foundling Hospital, on ... October 10th, 1830 / [Alfred Williams].
- Williams, Alfred
- Date:
- 1830
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The good way is the old way; or the love of novelty in religion censured. A sermon preached in the chapel of the Foundling Hospital, on ... October 10th, 1830 / [Alfred Williams]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![If we have hitherto trodden in it, we must still persevere in it, whatever temptations or discou¬ ragements may attend us ; for it is ‘ he, and lie only that endureth to the end,1 who can attain to his desired destination, ‘ When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity and dieth in them, all his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned. To encourage a continuance in the good old way, the Promise is added, that we shall find rest for our souls. By this is mainly intended that we shall at last inherit ‘that rest which remained] for the people of God.’f And, doubt¬ less, such will be his portion who, at the close of his earthly career, by faith and holiness shall have approved himself as a redeemed and responsible being to his Maker and Sa¬ viour. But, before his final recompense, in this life, the true Christian shall enjoy much rest to his soul. The passions and lusts of his nature shall be calmed and subdued ; his conscience shall be at peace ; his mind shall not be dis¬ tracted with those frightful misgivings which oftimes make shipwreck of the affections of the Ezok, xviiij 26, 24. t Heb. iv, 9.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30364279_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
