The book Sermons On Several Subjects was written by author Paley, William, 1743-1805 Here you can read free online of Sermons On Several Subjects book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Sermons On Several Subjects a good or bad book?
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The punishment threatened and denounced against his crime was this : ^< Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will make thivie house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha» p 4 216 the son of Ahijah^ for the provoc^GUJoH wherewith thou hast provoked me to angery and made Israel to sin." The provocation^ you will observe, was the introduction of ftlse gods into his kingdom ; and the pro- phet here not only theatens Ahab mtk ihe ruin and destruction of his family, oa the punishment of his sin, but points^ out toliim two instances of great families. 'hav- ing been destroyed for the very -same feason. You afterwards read the full ao- complishment of this sentence by the hand of Jehu« Now I consider these instadcoa tt, in fact, th^ execution of the second commandment, and as showing what senae tiiat commandment bore. But if it were flo ; if the force of the threat was, that m the distribution and assignment of temporal prosperity and adversity, upon a mait'a family and to a man's race, respect would be had to his fidelity to God, or his vebdlion against him in this article of &lse and* idol- atrous worship ; then is the punishment, as to the nature and justice of it, agreeable to what we see in the constant and ordi- liary course of God's providence.
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