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such a direct tendency of every particular event to the welfare and happiness of the whole s and to the welfare and Yn ppiness of every individual , upon the whole , as will justify us in pronouncing of theloeconoftiy of things in general , of the government and administration of
Pr 6 vidence , considered in ail its parts , that ir is , in all respects , and in every sense whatsoever , "worthy of its author , —wor . hy of that goodness which . suggested , that wisdom which contrived , and that power which brought it into being . * Behold , it is very good . ' •*
'Fhe practical considerations suggested by the author as deducible from the doctrines in forced in this Discourse , are ( 1 ) , That whatever be our Jot we can have no reason to complain : ( 2 ) , That all itje censures we pass , and all
the exceptions we take to the works and government of God , in general , are groundless and unjust : and , ( 3 ) , That we ' ought to entertain an honourable and just opinion of them , and to manifest the tame to others , by a suitable treatment of them in our
conversation and practice . This leads to the consideration of the influence which a persuasion of the goodness of God in all his works will have on our present condition
* Our happiness , ' says the autbor , "in any situation , has a principal dependence upon the ppinion \\] e have accustomed our * elves to form of it ; and so sensi
ble indeed of this is every wise and considerate person , that let bis situation be what it will , he is eye £ careful to make the best he can of it , — -to give every argument on tbe favourable side its ' full weig h * ,
—to n > ake all possible allowance for such circ u mstances as are un * favourable in it ; without being nice and curious to discover more of these than necessarily and un . avoidably force themselves iato
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the account : " the consequence of this is that he never repines at any thing that befals him : and that he acquiesces in the undoubted goodness of God as the foundation of his future hopes .
" Where there is a constant impres * sion of this great truth /* says our ailthor , habitually influencing our con * duct , that * every thing which God hath made is good , " the mind has a stay , which nothing can remove ; a dependence which nothing can shake ; a
resource of confidence which nothing can exhaust or interrupt . His very being is a matter of joy and gratitude , as aa earnest of an happy immortality : nor repines he at any conditions on which it may be appointed him to possess it for
a season \ as well knowing that , however grievous , they are but temporary , and-will certainly obtain for him , in the end , a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory . ' In a word , knowing who it is that is his present * shield , * and will infallibly prove hereafter his
c exceeding great reward , ' the constant language or his tongue and heart is , Alleluiah ! for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth . ' *• From the foregoing account of these volumes we need scarcely add any thing by way of recommendation . Their intrinsic
merit must , be evident to our readers ; they are instructive and animated , calculate ^ to inform the mind , and inspire the heart with the best sentiments of God an , d religion . In general the reasoning is close and solid , and the inferences de * duced from it natural and
impressive . * J ] he a , uttior who died at the age of 88 , in September 1601 , was a living exemplar of the doctrine * and precepts which he § o ably
inculcated upon others : he was not more distinguished for erudition , than for the mildness of bis manners and for his exemplary piety : his life , therefore ^ was to his parishioners as instructive as
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408 RevietB . ^—Manning's Sertnons +
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page 408, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/52/
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