Comfort For The Afflicted Under Every Distress PDF Download

Excerpt from Comfort for the Afflicted: Under Every Distress; With Suitable Devotions "Enquiries after Happiness, and Rules for attaining it, are not so necessary and useful to Mankind (Mr. Addison remarks) as the Arts of Consolation, and supporting one's self under Affliction." Convinced of this, from Experience, and from the frequent Scenes of Distress, to which his Office introduced him, the Writer of the following Work imagined, that he could not engage in a more benevolent Attempt, than that of offering Comfort to his suffering and afflicted Fellow-Creatures. He therefore resolved upon preaching a Set of Discourses with this View: In which he had made great Progress; when, accidentally, the good Bishop Hall's Treatise, called, The Balm of Gilead, fell into his Hand. As this coincided with his Plan, he freely used such Arguments of this amiable Writer, as approved themselves to his Judgment, altering the Style, and making other Improvements as seemed necessary. When he had finished the Discourses, it was determined to weave them into a Treatise, and lay them in a regular Form before the World, for the Benefit of such as might need, and would be glad of the Consolation afforded in them. Free Use hath been made of such Writers, as have united their kind Endeavours to assuage the Burthen of human Woe; amongst whom particular Respect mould be paid to Dr. Grosvenor, to whose Holy Mcurner we are greatly indebted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.