Excerpt from Sermon, Delivered at the Interment of the Rev. Jeremy Belknap, D.D: Minister of the Church in Federal Street, Boston, June 22, 1798 Being thus fent into the world by God, with all our talents and opportunities derived from him, what is our end? Is it to fleep on the bed of floth? To wal'te our years in idle inactivity? Is it not rather to be diligent and laborious? Man is not excepted from that law of action; which binds all other creatures. Powers of body and mind were not given to be um exerted, ...
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Excerpt from Sermon, Delivered at the Interment of the Rev. Jeremy Belknap, D.D: Minister of the Church in Federal Street, Boston, June 22, 1798 Being thus fent into the world by God, with all our talents and opportunities derived from him, what is our end? Is it to fleep on the bed of floth? To wal'te our years in idle inactivity? Is it not rather to be diligent and laborious? Man is not excepted from that law of action; which binds all other creatures. Powers of body and mind were not given to be um exerted, nor Opportunities of Providence and grace, to be unimproved. Since our talents are impaired or loll by difufe fince by exertion only can we pro vide for our prefervation and well being, our tran quillity and cafe fince floth debafes our nature, lays us open to every temptation, and throws contempt on the gifts of God, bellowed for important pur pofes we mull be fenfible that diligence and a�'cim ity are not lefs our duty, than our happinefs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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