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Show when the meeting broke up they separated Esgay o Compengatio without remark on the sermon Yet what was the import of this teaching What did the preacher mean by saying tha the good are miserable in the present life Was it that houses and lands, offices, wine horses, dress, luxury, are had by unprincipled men, whilst the saints are poor an despised; and that a compensation is to b made to these last hereafter, by giving the the like gratifications another day,-bankstock and doubloons, venison and champagne? This must be the compensation intended; for what else? Is it that they are t have leave to pray and praise? to love an serve men? Why, that they can do now The legitimate inference the disciple woul draw was, "We are to have such a goo time as the sinners have now;"-or, t push it to its extreme import,-*You si now, we shall sin by-and-by; we woul sin now, if we could; not being successfu we expect our revenge to-morrow. The fallacy lay in the immense concessio Digital Image © 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah. All rights reserved |