Deeply Consider That It Is Your Duty

It Is Strictly And Philosophically True In Nature And Reason That There Is No Such Thing As Chance Or Accident; It Being Evident That These Words Do Not Signify Anything Really Existing, Anything That Is Truly An Agent Or The Cause Of Any Event; But They Signify Merely Men's Ignorance Of The Real An Immediate Cause.

To Suppose More Than One Supreme Source Of Infinite Wisdom, Power, And All Perfections, Is To Assert That There Is No Supreme Being In Existence.

The Bible Is Proved To Be A Revelation From God, By The Reasonableness And Holiness Of Its Precepts; All Its Commands, Exhortations, And Promises Having The Most Direct Tendency To Make Men Wise, Holy, And Happy In Themselves, And Useful To One Another.

Verse 11. (they Presented Unto Him Gifts). The People Of The East Never Approach The Presence Of Kings And Great Personages, Without A Present In Their Hands. The Custom Is Often Noticed In The Old Testament, And Still Prevails In The East, And In Some Of The Newly Discovered South Sea Islands.

Prayer Is Not Designed To Inform God, But To Give Man A Sight Of His Misery; To Humble Man's Heart, To Excite His Desire, To Inflame His Faith, To Animate His Hope, To Raise His Soul From Earth To Heaven.