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Excerpt from A Discourse: The Substance of Which Was Delivered at the Annual General Meeting of the Baptist Missionary Society, in Bristol, (Eng.) September, 1818
They came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty. IT would be' an impertinent use of our time to spend many moments in apologizing for the practice, too common perhaps among preachers, of accommodating the merely secular facts of scripture history, or objects in nature, to the purpose oi representing, in the way of formal and extended parallel, the topics immediately belonging to religion. We may, however, just observe, that it seems to the honour of religion that'so many things can, without the art of forcing resemblances, be accommodated to its illustration. It is an evident and remark able fact, that there is a certain principle of correspondence to religion throughout the economy of the world. Things bearing an apparent analogy to its truths, sometimes more prominently, sometimes more abstrusely, present themselves on all sides to a thoughtful mind. He that made all things for himself ap pears to have willed that they should be a great system of emblems, reflecting or shadowing that system of principles in which we are to apprehend Him, and our relation and Obliga tions to Him. So that religion, standing up in grand parallel to an infinity Of things, receives their testimony and homage, and speaks with a voice which is echoed by the creation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.
