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Excerpt from The Leaven of the Kingdom of God, or Christianity Leavening Common Life and Conversation: A Sermon
By forgetting these fundamental truths men have learnt contentedly to leave their common life unblest. Their opinions and ways of thinking and feeling on common subjects are lighted with no Heavenly light. Human life and the world, and its marriages, births, deaths, politics, daily joys and sorrows, are thought to have become, by a melancholy necessity, in their very nature, low earthly things, which cannot be made beautiful or heavenly, nor salted with any salt to keep them from cor ruption. Angels who live in Heaven may, they think, he like G01), and so may we, if we can become like angels, and separate from the earth but so long as we are engaged in earthly cares and thoughts we must be of the earth earthy - not made in Gon's image at all. This is to forget that great truth taught us at this season (christmas -the truth namely, that the son or Goo lived a common man's life, for the very purpose of show ing how the fulness of the Godhead may shine through the whole of it, and make birth, and marriage, and death, and every thing, beautiful and heavenly - as Goo is willing always to make them. In the following Sermon I have endeavoured to point out a test or means of self-examination, by the use of which we may discover how far this has been the case with us, and how far our habitual opinions and feelings are leavened with Christian leaven. 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.
