The cholera and its consequences : an address, occasioned by the death of Miss ___, who was suddenly removed by the prevalent epidemic, on Sept. 2, 1832.

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1832
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    by “things seen and temporal,” and is entirely taken up with the “ unseen and eternal.” II. We are now To deduce from the subject, thus illustrated, certain general principles and re- flections by way of practical improvement. I shall express each of these in the language of Scripture. 1. “ Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.—This is a general truth, clothed in sacred phraseology, in words which the Holy Ghost teacheth; a truth which we are ready to acknowledge, and—to forget. It does not mean that man is bom to nothing but trouble, for this is obviously contrary to fact; man is bom to de- light and happiness as well as suffering ; the same Being who has made him “ subject to vanity,” has also given him all things “ richly to enjoy.” Nor does it mean that man was madq for trouble—that trouble, in the divine government, is an end of itself; man was originally made for happiness; the end proposed in his creation was the display of the divine glory, by his perfect assimilation to the Divine Image, and his constant participation of the divine beatitude. By the apostacy he