Gold And The Gospel Ulster Prize Essays

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ISBN 13 : 9781331241874
Total Pages : 422 pages
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Download or read book Gold and the Gospel written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Gold and the Gospel: The Ulster Prize Essays on the Scriptural Duty of Giving in Proportion to Means and Income Several treatises have recently been published on the subject of Christian Liberality, and in these the fearful prevalence of Covetousness has been ably exposed. But, after all, it is to be feared that no satisfactory method of bringing home to the consciences of individuals the guilt of this insidious evil has been elicited. The measure of liberality is still left to the decision of the selfish, and though covetousness is a sin of the deepest dye, and excludes from the kingdom of heaven, the question, "Who is covetous?" still receives no definite answer. There is still, therefore, the most urgent necessity for further inquiry on the subject; and if the Holy Scriptures are indeed an all-sufficient rule of faith and practice, "that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works;" we may expect to find in them some measure or standard of Christian almsgiving if not by direct precept, yet by fair and conclusive inference, the general adoption of which would be of essential advantage to the piety and usefulness of the Church of Christ. In reading the biography of the most eminently pious and useful in different ages, one must have been often struck with the fact that almost all of them devoted a regular proportion of their income to the Lord in pious and. charitable uses. We might mention many whose names are familiar, whose writings are venerated, and whose memory is precious; e.g. the Lord Chief Justice Hale, the Hon. Robert Boyle, Archbishop Tillotson, the Revs. Drs. Hammond, Annesley, Watts, and Doddridge, the Revs. R. Baxter, J. Wesley, T. Gouge, Brand, and R. Treffry, jun., together with the excellent Countess of Huntingdon, Mrs. Rowe, and Mrs. Bury. None of these gave less than one-tenth of their annual means or income, while several of them gave much more, and some of them gave all they had away, beyond the scriptural provision - "food and raiment." 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.