Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...his own heart; however, this excellent (because cool, therefore excellent), spirited person kept these dogs with a strong chain upon them; and, since man was created with a dominion over the beasts of the field, he would not let the o-1jQut Tv V'17/%-hold him in any slavery. He lived as under the eye and awe of the great God; and, as Basil noted, Potest miles coram Rege suo non irasci ob solum Regiz majcstatis eminentiam, thus the fear of God still restrained him from those ebullitions of wrath which other men are too fearless of." "And from this account of his temper I may venture now to proceed unto his vertue, by which I intend the holiness of his renewed heart and life, and the change made by the supernatural grace of Christ upon him, without which, all vertue is but a name, a sham, a fiction. He was a 'very holy man. As the ancients have assured us Ama Sciential Scripturarum, et vitia carnis non amabis; thus by reading daily several chapters in both Testaments of the Scriptures, with serious and gracious reflections thereupon, which he still followed with secret prayers, he grew more holy continually, until, in a flourishing old age, he was found fit for transplantation. "His worship in his family was that which argued him a true child of Abraham; and his counsel to his children was grave, watchful, useful, savoury, and very memorable. "If meditation (which was one of Luther's great things to make a divine) be a thing of no little consequence to make a Christian, this must be numbered among the exercises whereby our Whiting became very much improved in Christianity. Meditation (which is mentis ditatio) daily enriched his mind with the dispositions of Heaven; and, having a walk for that purpose in his orchard, some...
