File 4: Hassall family, correspondence, volume 1, pp. 8096-8750, ca. 1825-ca. 1900

ReadAboutContentsHelp

Pages

FL14428743
Page Status Needs Review

FL14428743

after the Spirit who are righteous not in pretence but in reality; not in talk & feeling but indeed & [indecipherable] [indecipherable] others are numbered with the [indecipherable] & the wicked shall go away into everlasting punishment but the righteous into life eternal -

Oh then beware of self righteous -ness & pride - there is a great deal of it to be seen about us - if not in words by their deeds "Stand by for I am holier than thou" Be ye therefore humble prayerful watchful

Take from us in heavenly Talk all self righteousness & pride and bestow upon us all that faith in

Last edit over 2 years ago by ghgormley
FL14428744
Page Status Needs Review

FL14428744

[Blank page followed by Note]

Port Macquarie 17/4 - 25 Parramatta /9 - 25 St James 11/9 - 25 Bathurst 21/1 - 27

Last edit over 2 years ago by ghgormley
FL14428745
Page Status Incomplete

FL14428745

Bradley [Heading is blacked out]

Jesus wept & at first sighting appears minute investigation [text crossed out] of it will I trust afford sufficient matter for our contemplation & improvement for [this day crossed out] the present occasion the with which the words are connected is familiar to [us all crossed out] most of you Never perhaps was there a more interesting narration published, it exhibits the character of Jesus in lovely & endearing [word crossed out] lights insomuch that it must constrain all who attentively consider the subject to admire & esteem him [Original text crossed out]

In enquiring into the cause of the Sorrows which vented themselves in tears it will be well to consider him in two points of view I. As the friend of Lazarus & his Sisters & II. As the Redeemer of mankind -

I. As the friend - Our Lord certainly wept - from comparison to the sorrowing mourners around him - He never was hard hearted

This page is incompleteEdit this page
Last edit over 2 years ago by ghgormley
FL14428746
Page Status Needs Review

FL14428746

but ever [missing text] a human misery - It was compassion for pun -ishing sinners which made him leave the world of glory, to suffer the ignominy & miseries of this lower world - the same principle that led him to shed tears over Jerusalem led him to mourn with his friends on this occasion This is fully proved in the 33 Verse When he there -fore saw Mary weeping & the Jews also weep which came with her the original means that he troubled or afflicted himself that is he gave way to the feelings of his heart

Observe too that it is said in this verse that the sorrow of the Jews affected him as well as the sorrow of Mary - When Jesus & they also weeping etc - Now we have no reason to suppose that these Jews were either believers - We may infer therefore that the compassion of Christ is as extensive as human misery that while the sorrows of his Church & people touch his heart so deeply he can & does feel

for the sorrows [following words obscured] - What encouragement is this for the afflicted sinner hath a source of consolation & hope - What that cannot feel persuaded that I am one of the renewed people of God - Yet if my heart is broken with a godly sorrow for sin; if I feel a desire take the burthen of my grief to Christ - let not my consciousness of guilt keep me back from a throne of grace let not my sin be the curse of my restraining prayer but rather let them be motived to excite diligence he who once wept on earth has still a tender as ever he will be sure to pity me & will not withold pardon & peace Another cause for the tears of Jesus was the loss of a friend. The brother of Mary & Martha was not a stranger to Jes but one who was peculiarly dear to him - So Jes tells us that Jes loved & during the whole of this transaction we clearly perceive the truth of this assertion

Last edit over 2 years ago by ghgormley
FL14428747
Page Status Transcribed

FL14428747

for we trace [following text obscured] the working of his heart even the Jews said "Behold how he loved him" - May we not learn from here that though our Creator demands the highest of our affections yet sorrow of the acutest kind is not forbidden to us when we are bereaved of those we love - We are it is true forbidden to sorrow as those who have hope & we are blamed if we take no com -fort at the same time - Insensibility forms no part of the Christian Character the religion of Christ has nothing to do with hardness of heart - exalt us to the dignity of the children of God it does not destroy in us those na -tural affections which are common to other men - No Religion while it strength -ens; it governs & directs all our feelings in a right channel - Abraham was an eminent servant of God & full of faith yet

when his beloved wife [following text obscured] He came to mourn for Sarah & to weep for her - they were devout men who carried Stephen to his burial & yet they made great lamentation - A want of feeling under trials of this kind is to be as much guarded against as fainting or despair - "My son despair not thou the chastening of the Lord" is the language of the most high & teaches us that if we grieve not our hearts must be hardened & consequently exposed to the wrath of God - The man of the world may condemn this conduct as childlike & the inex -perienced professor may doubt the sincerity of faith but Jesus who knows all his peoples weaknesses will remember his tears & will not be angry or offended at ours -

The tears of Christ might also be occasioned by a view of the instability of all happiness - The habitation now found full of mourning & if he had often found full of mourning & grief he had often found a habitation appear

Last edit over 2 years ago by ghgormley
Displaying pages 16 - 20 of 359 in total