Piety Without Asceticism Or the Protestant Kempis a Manual of Christian Fait
Piety Without Asceticism Or the Protestant Kempis a Manual of Christian Fait
John Jebb
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You ought to maintain a correspondence between heaven and * See Joseph Mede's masterly sermon on 1 Cor. Xi. 22. , and Dr. Townson's discourse on * The sabbath and sanctuary. ' ED. IMPORTANCE AND DIFFICULTY OF [SCOUGAL. earth, to deprecate the wrath of God, and to avert his vengeance and plagues from mankind. Your business is the same with that of the holy angels : you dwell in the house of God, and should be continually praising him. And this is an employ- ment so holy, that, were our souls as ...pure as che- rubs, as zealous and active as the blessed spirits above, we should yet have reason to cover our faces, and to be swallowed up, in a deep sense of our own insufficiency. And what is sinful dust and ashes, that he should stand in so near a re- lation to the Lord of glory ? What is man, O blessed God ! that thou shouldst chuse him, and cause him to approach unto thee ? " that he should dwell in thy courts ; and be satisfied with the good- ness of thy house, even of thy holy temple?"* The priesthood, under the law, was a very sacred and venerable thing ; and no profane hand might in- termeddle with the meanest offices that belonged unto it.
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