{"id":1644,"date":"2011-12-10T09:53:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T09:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2011-12-10T09:53:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T09:53:02","slug":"and-what-is-his-religion-but-vanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1644","title":{"rendered":"And what is his religion but vanity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>And what is his religion but vanity?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(adapted from Winslow\u2019s, \u201cThe Earnest<br \/>\nExpectation of the Renewed Creature\u201d)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWe are merely moving shadows, and<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>all our busy rushing, ends in nothing.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Man\u2019s origin, the earth;<br \/>\nhis birth, degenerate;<br \/>\nhis rank, a bauble;<br \/>\nhis wealth, but glittering dust;<br \/>\nhis pomp, an empty pageant;<br \/>\nhis beauty, a fading flower;<br \/>\nhis pursuits, an infant\u2019s play;<br \/>\nhis honors, vexations of spirit;<br \/>\nhis joys, fleeting as a cloud;<br \/>\nhis life, transient as a vapor;<br \/>\nhis final home, a grave.<\/p>\n<p>Truly, \u201cvanity\u201d is inscribed in legible<br \/>\ncharacters on each \u2018created\u2019 good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurely man in his best estate is altogether vanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>And what is his religion but vanity?<\/strong><br \/>\nHis native holiness, a vain conceit;<br \/>\nhis natural light, Egyptian darkness;<br \/>\nhis human wisdom, egregious folly;<br \/>\nhis religions forms, and rites, and duties,<br \/>\n\u201ca vain show in the flesh;\u201d<br \/>\nhis most gorgeous righteousness, filthy rags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And what is his religion but vanity? (adapted from Winslow\u2019s, \u201cThe Earnest Expectation of the Renewed Creature\u201d) \u201cWe are merely moving shadows, and all our busy rushing, ends in nothing.\u201d Man\u2019s origin, the earth; his birth, degenerate; his rank, a bauble; his wealth, but glittering dust; his pomp, an empty pageant; his beauty, a fading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-octavius-winslow","category-total-depravity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}