Author : William Sherlock
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333420734
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)
Book Synopsis A Practical Discourse Concerning Death (Classic Reprint) by : William Sherlock
Download or read book A Practical Discourse Concerning Death (Classic Reprint) written by William Sherlock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Practical Discourse Concerning Death That which first presents itself to our thoughts, and shall be the subject of this following treatise, is death, a very terrible thing, the very naming of which is apt to chill our blood and spirits, and to draw a dark veil over all the glories of this life. And yet this is the condition of all mankind, we must as surely die, as we are born for it is a/z/zoint ed unto men once to die. This is not the original law of our nature for though man was made ofthe dust of the earth, and therefore was by nature mortal, (for that which is made of dust is by nature corrupti ble, and may be resolved into (lust again) yet had he not sinned, he should never have died he should have been immortal by grace, and therefore had the sacrament ofimmortality, the tree oflife, planted in paradise but now by man sin entered into the world, and death by sin and so death assetl u/zon all men, for that all have slnntd, Rom. V. 12. And thus it is decreed and appointed by God, bv an irreversible centencc, dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt re turn. 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."