The Immortal mentor, or, Man's unerring guide to a healthy, wealthy, and happy life : in three parts / by Lewis Cornaro, Dr. Franklin, and Dr. Scott.

Date:
1815
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Credit: The Immortal mentor, or, Man's unerring guide to a healthy, wealthy, and happy life : in three parts / by Lewis Cornaro, Dr. Franklin, and Dr. Scott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    must appear to men who have their interests and pleasures at heart, a heavy tax, a great drawback. Sur. )y such men would give their thanks ; nay, ] suppose, would chearfuHy vote the thanks of all Christendom to him, who should put them in the way to make the Subbatli the most agreeable day in the week. Let us love God, and the work is done. We shall then rejoice that there is such a day, be- cause our hearts will then approve the purposes for which it was appointed. A day that is taken from the cares of a short life, and laid out on the interests of eternity. A day that is spent in considering our obligations to God, in thanking him for his favours, confessing our unworthiness, and imploring his for- giveness ; in short, a day spent in a way so admira- bly adapted to instruct the ignorant, to reclaim the bad, to strengthen the good, to honour God, and to make ourselves happy ; such a day must, to him who loves God and man, be the most joyful day of the whole week. On this account too, the man who loves God, will see a church in quite another light, and with senti- ments happily different from those of the man who loves him not. To the latter, prayers, psalms and sermons, have always been wearisome; and, as it is in the church that he has been accustomed to do such penance, he insensibly contracts a dislike to it> ,
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