The Practical Works of the Rev. Job Orton, S. T. P , Vol. 2 of 2
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Excerpt from The Practical Works of the Rev. Job Orton, S. T. P , Vol. 2 of 2: Now First Collected, Consisting of Discourses, Sacramental Meditations, and Letters With Copius Indexes, to Which Is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author Having been obliged, through the ill state of my health, to lay aside the public exercises of the ministry, I have been considering how I might improve those intervals of ease and cheerfulness, with which a kind Providence hath indulged me, for the service of mankind: for serviceable I would still be; like one that, as Dr. Lucas expresseth it, truly loves his country, when no other way is left him, he fights for it on his stumps; so will I, even in the remains of a broken constitution, express at least my affection for mankind, and breathe out my last gasp in its service. Nothing seemed to myself and my friends more likely to answer this end, than to publish some of the compositions of my better days. Under a deep consciousness of their imperfections, this is my encouragement; that there are different tastes and relishes in the world; that something new, or expressed in a different style and manner, peculiar to the writer himself, may have a greater tendency to inform and impress the readers, than more accurate performances on the same subjects, with which they are already acquainted. A new publication may also serve to supply the place and carry on the design of those treatises, on the like topics, which may be falling into forgetfulness. On these accounts, and from the great importance of the subjects of them, I hope the following discourses will be acceptable and useful to some; especially to those who heard them preached, whose spiritual benefit I am particularly bound still to consult; and whom I desire to consider this book as affectionately dedicated to them. It will be natural for the reader to inquire, why I fixed upon the subjects contained in this volume. My reasons were these. From all that I have seen and head of the state of religion in this nation, there seem to be no subjects concerning which it hath more need to be seriously addressed and admonished. That there is a general neglect of the important duties here urged, is, alas! too evident; and that this neglect is of most pernicious consequence, the profaneness, luxury, dissipation, licentiousness, and factious spirit, which characterize the age, too plainly demonstrate. There seems to me much reason to fear, that the many strong things which have been said from the pulpit and the press against superstition and enthusiasm, however true and just in themselves, have had a tendency, for want of being properly guarded, to increase these evils. 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.
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