Things New and Old; Or, a Storehouse of Similes, Sentences, Allegories, Apophthegms, Adages, Apologues, Divine, Moral, Political, &C., with Their Seve

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. ... the world and worldly men? for (have we but so much faith as to believe it) we have an heavenly home, and an eternal life by Christ prepared for us, at the which, when we once arrive, we shall be sure to meet with friends enough, even God, His blessed saints and angels, who will honour us; riches and treasures inestimable, that will store us; joy and glory unspeakable, that will for evermore refresh us. P. Bayne's Miracle of God's Love, on John iii. 16. PariaJumus dulcis. Manet altera Casto. 1249. To Regulate our IVills by God's Will. If a man lay a crooked stick upon an even level ground, the stick and ground ill suit together, but the fault is in the stick; and in such a case, a man must not strive to bring the even ground to the crooked stick, but bow the crooked stick even with the ground. So is it between God's will and ours, there is a discrepancy and jarring betwixt them; but where is the fault, or rather, where is it not? Not in the will of God, but in our crooked and corrupt affections, in which case we must not, like Balaam, seek to bring God's will to ours, but be contented to rectify and order the crookedness of our will, by the rectitude and sanctity of the will of God, which must be the ruler and moderator of our will ; for which cause we are to cry out with David, Teach me, O Lord, to do Thy will, Psalm cxliii. 10, and with the whole church of God, in that pattern of wholesome words, Fiat voluntas Tua, Thy will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven; never forgetting that too of Christ Jesus Himself, in the midst of His agony and bloody sweat, Non mea sed Tua fiat voluntas, Father, not my will, but Thine be dpne, Luke xxii. 42. 5. Augustin. in Psalm xliv. 6. END OF VOL. I. Printed by Arthur King & Co., Broad...