Excerpt from SermonsThe truth is, these works of Nature were not made to last: they shall be burnt up, and a reasonable man ought not, therefore, to expect them to teach him lessons for his immortality. They may furnish him use ful hints while here, but they never put into his hand or his heart a promise to carry out of the world with him. They may aid his piety, too, if he has gone to the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles, and, by yielding to Divine truth and seeking the Holy Spirit, has got his soul converted. But without this, the light of Nature will never cultivate piety. It never did. Hope has ransacked history for an example. SO has Deism. So has a proud philosophy. But they have found none. The world has been barren of piety wherever there has been no revelation of God, or none of its light remaining among the glimmerings of tradition. Man needs the Bible to convert him to God and fit him to die.This is our theme: the absolute necessity of Special communications from God himself, to teach human nature those truths about God, about man's self, his duties, and his destination, which are necessary to his virtue, peace, happiness, and stable hope.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.