Excerpt from Enquiring of the Fathers, or Seeking Wisdom From the Past: Discourses Preached in the New North Church, on Lord's Day, December 9th, on the Completion of the 124th Year From the Establishment of the Church and of the 25th Year Since the Settlement of the Present PastorThe rapid succession of those periods, by which we are accustomed to measure human life and the course of human affairs, suggests very useful instruction, and may produce the most salutary impressions. It is the part of a sound philosophy to seek wisdom from the past, that it may obtain guidance for the future. It belongs to a filial piety to acknowledge and adore a fatherly protection through the scenes and changes of our being, and specially does it become a Christian's gratitude, to hold in reverence the institutions of his religion, which are to the World a standing monument of his faith; which preserve for him, in its purity and beauty, that pearl of great price, the gospel of his hopes; by which his knowledge is enlarged, and the life of God within him is nourished.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.

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