The Celebration at North Coventry, March 10, 1859
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Excerpt from The Celebration at North Coventry, March 10, 1859: Of the Settlement of Rev. George A. Calhoun, D. D., Over the Church and Society in That Place, March 10, 1819 And the purpose to be accomplished by this leading of the Lord their God was to humble them, to prove them, to let them know what was in their hearts, whether they would keep God´s commandments or no. The result of the trial proved them to be distrustful, ungrateful and rebellious. It brought out to their view, and to the contemplation of others, their propensity to sin. Had the Israelites been taken, in modern conveyances, from Egypt to Canaan without calamity or hindrance, - had they experienced, on their journey, nothing to try their faith in God, and their spirit of obedience, they would have remained greatly deceived respecting their wickedness of heart, and would have been unprepared for entering the promised land. Character is never reformed till its defects are seen and felt. And the purpose of God in his providential dealings with men, is to develop their character, that the way may be prepared for the application of the remedy which he has provided. Depraved as we are, and deceived as we are in reference to the latent sinfulness of our nature trials are needful for bringing out to view what is in us, and causing us to feel our need of pardoning mercy and purifying grace. "Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth." When the Israelites requested Moses to receive and communicate to them the commandments of the Lord, promising him they would hear and do; they did not imagine that before his return from the mount, they would cry to a molten calf, "These be thy gods, O Israel." But the trial to which they were subjected disclosed their idolatrous dispositions. When the prophet informed Hazael what cruelty he would inflict on the children of Israel, Hazael exclaimed: "What! is thy servant a dog that he should do this great thing?" That very thing he was left to do. When Christ informed his disciples that the shepherd should be smitten, and the sheep be scattered, they all promised fidelity, and impulsive Peter said, "Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise said all the disciples." The result disclosed their self-confidence and self-deception, and was the means of humbling them before God. In his last address to the Israelites, Moses exhorted them to remember God´s providential dealings with their nation during the forty years then preceding. The trial of faith endured in the wilderness, the merciful deliverances experienced, the rebukes administered, the follies and rebellions practiced, and the fearful judgments executed, all should be kept in fresh remembrance as instructive and profitable to them and future generations. 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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