Excerpt from The World to Come: Or Discourses on the Joys or Sorrows of Death, Judgment and Eternity; To Which Are Added an Essay on the Separate State of Souls, and an Appendix, Containing Select Poems Dr. Isaac Watts, the author of the following Discourses, was born at Southampton, in England, in the year 1674. His parents were nonconformists, and his father was a sufferer for conscience' sake, having been imprisoned more than once for refusing to conform to the religion established by government. During his confinement, his afflicted and sympathising wife was sometimes seen sitting on a stone, near the prison door, with her son Isaac on her bosom. Isaac, at a very early age, gave promising indications of genius, and from fifteen to fifty, poetical composition contributed to his amusement, as it also did to his usefulness and fame. In his nineteenth year, he became a professed follower of Christ, and devoted himself to those studies, and assiduously cultivated those habits, which were calculated to prepare him for the sacred duties of a Christian minister. At the age of twenty-four, and on his birth-day, he preached his first sermon. During the first three or four years of his ministry, his labours were much interrupted by sickness; but he was so far restored as to labour with much acceptance and success, till 1712, when a violent fever so completely prostrated his constitution, that he was never afterwards able to discharge, statedly, the public duties of a pastor. During a period of thirty-six years, which he spent in a state of retirement, he laboured most laudably and industriously, to promote by his pen, that holy cause, which he was no longer permitted to plead from the sacred desk. In 1748, he died, in the 74th year of his age, sustained by the consolations, and animated with the hopes of that gospel, which he had so long been spared and privileged to recommend to others. His poetical works are, for the greater part, well known, and favourably appreciated, by all who love pious sentiments expressed in an elegant simplicity of diction. His prose works are various and excellent. 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.

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Our churches affirm that death cannot destroy the communion with God of those redeemed and justified. The nature of the life that the justified departed share with God cannot be described in great detail and, in this life, it remains a great mystery. Nevertheless, Catholics and Lutherans share the sure and certain hope that the justified departed are in Christ and enjoy the rest that belongs to those who have run the race. This common statement of Round XI offers fresh insights into some issues that proved contentious in the debates of the sixteenth century. Among the issues explored in this dialogue were continuity in the communion of saints, prayers for or about the dead, the meaning of death, purgation, an interim state between death and the final general judgment, and the promise of resurrection. Agreements are affirmed on the basis of new insights, as readers will discover in this statement of Round XI.

One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly posits a way out of despair, reaffirming the value of personal existence, and the possibility of life lived with dignity and authenticity.