BY HUGH BLAIR, D.D. F.R.S. Ed. ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF THE HIGH CHURCH, AND PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES IN TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER BY JAMES FINLAYSON, D.D. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. A NEW EDITION. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. CADELL; F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON; LONGMAN, HURST, REES, 1822. On the Benefits to be derived from the House of Mourning. ECCLESIASTES, vii. 2, 3, 4. It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart. Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of On the Divine Government of the Passions of Men. On the Importance of Religious Knowledge to Mankind. [Preached before the Society in Scotland for propagating Christian ISAIAH, xi. 9. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the * Originally the first Sermon of the Third Volume. |