Cordials In Temporal Troubles E-Book

Henry Law

• Herausgeber: Darolt Books
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Cordials In Temporal Troubles is one book of Henry Law. One message of peace and comfort for Christians of the all world.

Henry Law was born at Kelshall rectory in Hertfordshire, 1797.Law was educated at Eton College and St John's College, Cambridge, where he became fellow in 1821. Later that year he was ordained.

Dean of Gloucester in the eighteenth century and an influential figure in the evangelical party of the Church of England.

Leseprobe

PREFACE

Henry Law was born at Kelshall rectory in Hertfordshire, 1797.Law was educated at Eton College and St John’s College, Cambridge, where he became fellow in 1821. Later that year he was ordained.

Dean of Gloucester in the eighteenth century and an influential figure in the evangelical party of the Church of England. The Trust publishes his Daily Prayer and Praise (devotions on the Psalms) in two volumes; out of print are his The Gospel in Genesis, and The Gospel in Exodus.

One of his most well-known works is entitled "Christ is All: The Gospel in the Pentateuch", which surveys typologies of Christ in the first five books of the Old Testament. It was originally published in 1867 by the Religious Tract Society. This book proved significant in the development of Hudson Taylor's notion of the "exchanged life".

CHAPTER 1

Each woman's son is born an heirnot to a palace or a crown, not to broad lands or mines of gold, not to ancestral lineage of fame, not to high rank among the rich and great, not to a soft seat on luxury's lap, but to the inheritance of a common portion TROUBLE. 

Few are called to be honored and caressed, to be idols of admiring crowds, to outstrip others in the worldly race, to enjoy sound health and sinewy strength, to overabundance of sublunary goods; but many are called to suffering. Our usual walk is in a valley of tears. 

The billows of affliction swell around us, and storms of distress, with little intermission, buffet us. Where is the eye which rarely weeps? 

Where is the breast which seldom sighs? Bereavements go forth to their daily work. Pains and diseases do not slumber. 

The lament is not uncommon, "In the morning, would God it were evening! In the evening, would God it were morning!" Deut. 28:67. 

Wails belong not to a scanty class. We know that the white-robed multitude came out of great tribulations.

Man is indeed endowed with wondrous gifts of intellect; and mental resources, neither few nor weak, labor to exclude the entrance of trouble. 

But they can erect no fortress which sorrow fails to scale. They can construct no intercepting bars. 

Trouble has a key for every lock, and takes its seat by every chair. It is the rich man's shadow, and lies on poverty's low pallet. It marches with every camp, and sails in every fleet. It is the native of each climate, and has its root in every soil. Flight to lonely deserts will not secure escape; and crowds give no concealment. 

To be a human being is to be linked to trouble.

This truth cannot be controverted, for every heart confirms it. We read it in the annals of our race. It is the stamp on history's brow. In diversitylarge as diversity can bethere is the oneness of distress. In Eden's garden, clear sunshine was a brief delight; obscuring clouds soon cast a dismal gloom. Sin came. All troubles thronged its rear. The woman hears"I will greatly multiply your sorrow in your conception." The man hears"In sorrow shall you eat of it all the days of your life." "Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward." Job 5:7. It is our common courseour beaten paththe well-known stream, on which we float. Earth is a wide 'Bochim'. "So they called the place 'Weeping.'" Judges 2:5

Doubtless, some mitigating periods intervene. In stormy days the wind is sometimes lulled; and the sun sometimes breaks the densest clouds. In sandy deserts some green spots are found. So, in a troublous life, there are some intervals of rest. But they are not sufficient to nullify the rule that trouble is largely written on life's page.