Excerpt from The Works of the Right Reverend John Stark Ravenscroft D. D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocess of North-Carolina, Vol. 2 of 2: Containing His Sermons, Charges, and Controversial Tracts; To Which Is Prefixed a Memoir of His Life To this end, nothing, 111 my judgment, can contribute so effectually as a serious consideration of the nature, influence, and consequences, of sin as a component part of our fallen frame, exerting a constraining power over 11s, and Operating to our ruin now and for ever. And though this is a subject on which most will suppose that they need nothing, either to inform or impress them, I am well persuaded of the contrary. I am fully convinced, that there is no one subject, religion itself excepted, on which there are such vague and unsettled notions, or on which men so readily content themselves with admission in the gross, and with disregard in the particulars. 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.