Futurity / Published in aid of the funds of the Royal Berkshire Hospital.

  • Merry, William.
Date:
1848
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Futurity / Published in aid of the funds of the Royal Berkshire Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    D obedience in proof of that faith. We are made reasonable beings that we may duly understand all this ; and have received from time to time all needful instruction from the prophets, from divine lips and example, and from the apostles. Knowing all these things, we profess to think of this world only as a preparation for a better, and to rejoice in the blessed hope before us. And here a question arises :— Do ive rejoice in this blessed hope ? You, under whose eye this enquiry falls, I ask you to pause, and with “ wandering thoughts called home,” to put to yourself the question, “ What is my precise and definite belief as to a future state of existence, and in what degree do I find present thoughts and actions influenced thereby ?” Will it be denied by any, whose years and experience have taught them to weigh well their own thoughts, or those of others, that Christians there are, so called, who may be said to submit, to be resigned to, rather than to believe, and hope for eternal life ? The proof being, that, if in their power, they would postpone the hour of death indefinitely, as they do the thoughts of
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