SLAM.
VII.
,PALLING
SHORT OF
HEAVEN.
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5.
Add
to all this,
that
he had
many civil
advantages
by
reason
of
his riches, his
authority,
and
his.
power.
He
was
wealthy,
and he
was
a
ruler
among
the people:
which things,
though they cannot
in themselves
make
any person amiable, yet when they
are
added to
the
former
good
qualities, they
render
them
all
more lovely
and more
valuable;
and
that
because they
are
so
seldom
joined
together.
Dr. Goodman remarks
very
ingenu-
ously
here,
"that
his
concern
about
his
soul,
was
dot a
sick
-bed meditation,
for
he
was
in
health
;
nor
a
melan-
choly
qualm
of
old age,
for
he
was
young; nor
was
it
the
effect
of
his being
discontented and
out
of humour
with
the
world, for
he
was
rich and prosperous,"
It
is
seldom
that
we
see
a man
in the
prime
of
his
days, possessing
large
treasures and
dominions
in
this world,
that
will
seek
after the
things
of
another
;
or
that
will
shew
due
respect
to
his fellow
-
creatures, or
practise
so
much
as the form
of
godliness
:
that
when all
these meet
to-
gether,
as
they did in this
young
man, they
conspire
to
make
him lovely in
the
eyes
of
every
beholder.
But alas
!
this
unhappy youth, furnished,
as he
was,
with all
these virtues,
and
these advantages, which
our
Lord
beheld
in
him,
and for
which he loved
him,
yet he
lost
heaven for the
love
of
this world.
He
refused to
ac-
cept
the
proposals
of Christ;
he
went
away
sorrowful,
for
he
had large
possessions.
And this
naturally leads
me to
the
third
head.
[If
this sermon be
too
long,
it
may
be divided
here.]
III.
Some
remarks upon this
mixed
character;
upon
the
folly,
the
guilt,
and
misery
of
a man
so
lovely,
and
so
beloved
of
Christ.
Ist
Remark. How much
good and
evil
maybe
min=
gled in
the
same
person
?
What
lovely
qualities were
found
in this young man
!
and yet
there
was
found
in-
him
a carnal mind
in
love with this world, and
in
a
state
of
secret enmity
to
God.
Our nature
at
first
was
a glo-
rious composition
of
all
that
was
good.
How has
sin
ruined
human
nature
from its primitive
glory,
and
min-
gled
a large measure
of
evil in
its
very frame
!
and
yet
how has
restraining
grace kept
our nature
from losing
every thing
that
is
good
and valuable, and from becom-
ing universally
monstrous and loathsome
!
Let
us
take
a
survey
of
the world, and
see
what
a
mix
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