Bad Advertisement?
Are you a Christian?
Online Store:Visit Our Store
| Chapter XXIV
PREVIOUS SECTION - NEXT SECTION - HELP 
Chapter
XXIV.
The pursuit of human glory, we maintain, is
forbidden not only by the teaching of Jesus, but also by the Old
Testament. Accordingly we find one of the prophets, when
imprecating upon himself certain punishments for the commission of
certain sins, includes among the punishments this one of earthly
glory. He says, “O Lord my God, if I have done this; if
there be iniquity in my hands; if I have rewarded evil unto him that
was at peace with me; (yea, rather, I have delivered him that without
cause is mine enemy;) let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it;
yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and set my glory up
on high.”4728
And these
precepts of our Lord, “Take no thought what ye shall eat, or what
ye shall drink. Behold the fowls of the air, or behold the
ravens: for they sow not, neither do they reap; yet your heavenly
Father feedeth them. How much better are ye than they! And
why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the
field;”4729
—these
precepts, and those which follow, are not inconsistent with the
promised blessings of the law, which teaches that the just “shall
eat their bread to the full;”4730
nor with that
saying of Solomon, “The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his
soul, but the belly of the wicked shall want.”4731
For we must consider the food promised
in the law as the food of the soul, which is to satisfy not both parts
of man’s nature, but the soul only. And the words of the
Gospel, although probably containing a deeper meaning, may yet be taken
in their more simple and obvious sense, as teaching us not to be
disturbed with anxieties about our food and clothing, but, while living
in plainness, and desiring only what is needful, to put our trust in
the providence of God.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
|
