Publication
Newburyport: From the Press of E. W. Allen.
Physical description
19 p.; 21 inches
Notes
Sermon text: Habakkuk 3:17-18.
"To ascribe glory to Jehovah, for his transcendent perfections, and his infinite benefits, is the appropriate duty of a thanksgiving season. Such an employment must ever be congenial to the pious heart. Yet the emotions to which it gives birth, are mingled, and various. Meditating on the glories of the Deity, we painfully perceive and feel our own depravity and vileness. In the light of his purity, our own pollution appears more than ever conspicuous and hateful. And how can we recount the long catalogue of his mercies, and not be oppressed, almost to sinking, with a sense of that deep-died ingratitude, and those numberless crimes, by which we have forfeited every divine favor?--With the recollection, likewise, of our blessings, public and private, the remembrance of our calamities and sorrows is intimately associated. And in such company, affliction pierces the heart with keener anguish."
"To ascribe glory to Jehovah, for his transcendent perfections, and his infinite benefits, is the appropriate duty of a thanksgiving season. Such an employment must ever be congenial to the pious heart. Yet the emotions to which it gives birth, are mingled, and various. Meditating on the glories of the Deity, we painfully perceive and feel our own depravity and vileness. In the light of his purity, our own pollution appears more than ever conspicuous and hateful. And how can we recount the long catalogue of his mercies, and not be oppressed, almost to sinking, with a sense of that deep-died ingratitude, and those numberless crimes, by which we have forfeited every divine favor?--With the recollection, likewise, of our blessings, public and private, the remembrance of our calamities and sorrows is intimately associated. And in such company, affliction pierces the heart with keener anguish."