Lectures On The Gospel Of St Matthew In The Years 1798 1799 1800 And 1801

Author : Beilby Porteus
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483298699
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (986 download)

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Download or read book Lectures on the Gospel of St. Matthew written by Beilby Porteus and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lectures on the Gospel of St. Matthew: Delivered in the Parish Church of St. James, Westminster, in the Years 1798, 1799, 1800, and 1801 T the time when the following Lectures were first begun, the political, moral, and religious state of this king dom, wore a very unfavorable taped, and excited no small degree of uneasiness and alarm in every serious and reflecting mind. The enemies of this country were almost every where triumphant abroad, and its still more formidable ene mies at home were indefatigably active in their endeavors to difi'use the poison of disafi'ection, infidelity, and contempt of the holy Scriptures, through every part of the kingdom, more especially among the lower orders of the people, by th most ofi'ensive and impious publications; while at the same time it must be acknowledged, that among too many of the higher classes, there prevailed, in the midst of all our distresses, a spirit of dissipation, profusion, and voluptuous gaiety, ill suited to the gloominess of our situation, and ill calculated to secure to us the protection of heaven against the various dangers that menaced us on every side. Under these circum stances, it seemed to be the duty of every friend to religion, morality, good, order, and good government, and more especially of the ministers of the Gospel, to exert every power and every talent with which God had blessed them, in order to counteract the baneful effects of those pestilential writings which every day issued from the press to give some check. 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.