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Select Discourses Of Sereno Edwards Dwight - With A Memoir Of His Life (1851) (Paperback)
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Select Discourses Of Sereno Edwards Dwight - With A Memoir Of His Life (1851) (Paperback)
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GOD'S CONSTANT TRIAL OF MAN, Job vn: 17. 18. What is man, that thou
ehouldst try Mm every moment. To try denotes, to put to the test;
to place in such circumstances as will detect the character. The
courage of a soldier is tried in the field of battle. The talents
and industry of the student are put to the test by the daily
recitation. The difficulties and temptations of public life try the
firmness and integrity of men in power. The text instructs us, that
God so orders the daily events of life as to render them a constant
trial of every individual. He places him in circumstances which
will inevitably detect his character, and bring the hidden man of
the heart out into open, naked view. This truth, I know, is a
painful one to many; it is frequently questioned and denied, and by
those who admit it is too often forgotten. In considering it, I
propose to show: How the various events and circumstances of life
try every man's character: Why God so orders them, as to produce
this result. This trial is represented as carried on every moment.
Of course we are to regard it as commencing when the mind begins to
act, as continued from day to day, and as terminating at death.
Among these events and circumstances, I shall notice particularly,
? Afflictions. Men often speak of their afflictions as severe and
distressing trials. By this language they intend a trial of their
feelings, or of their fortitude. We ought, however, to regard them
as a trial in a higher and . more important sense, because they are
one of the most efficacious means of determining the moral
dispositions of our hearts. Afflictions do not come forth from the
dust, nor spring from the ground, but they are in every instance
immediately appointed and sent upon us by God. His hand takes away
our ...
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