The Holy Exercise Of The Presence Of God: In Three Parts
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- The Holy Exercise Of The Presence Of God: In Three Parts
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- 1871
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The Holy Exercise Of The Presence Of God: In Three Parts
Author: Vaubert, T. F
Year: 1871
PREFACE. The following little treatise on the manner of exercising the presence of God, selected from three authors greatly esteemed for their piety, will, it is hoped, be found very useful to such as desire to be instructed in their obligations regarding this holy practice, whatever be their state or condition, as well as to those who are charged by their ministry to teach and instruct them. Without a lively sense of the divine presence the mind languishes in the meditation of truths the most essential and affecting. A lively conviction of the presence of God is the soul of all good works. Without it the Christian, like the hypocritical Jew, honors God with his lips whilst his heart is far from Him, and thus, so far from drawing down, by the holy exercise of prayer, some drops of the celestial dew of grace, he therein experiences disgust and dissatisfaction. Whence comes it that the Royal Prophet prays with so much fervor, and that the Holy Ghost has instructed so many by the truths contained in his psalms, but because he had God always present, I have, said he, God ever before my eyes. (Ps. xv. 8.) It is the exercise of the divine presence which has formed so many holy bishops an
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