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Sinopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 Excerpt: ...of something like piety in a third, is all that is known of conversion by multitudes, and is considered as quite suilicient! What need is there of making so much ado? We must mind our business. We have something else to do than be always on our knees. God is merciful, and Christ died for all. We love cheerful piety. We are no enthusiasts. We hate so much cant. We hope that our hearts are no worse than others. Thus thousands are deceived, they neither know the nature nor the worth of the wedding garment, nor put it on. The hope of the hypocrite, and that of the unjust man perisheth. They hear this, but are unaffected, because they apply it to others instead of receiving it as their own portion. Hypocrites, with them, are the persecuted followers of the Lamb; and unjust men, fraudulent and dishonest characters. They enlarge on the failings of others, and extenuate or explain away their own; and by these and such like means, contrive to cheat their immortal souls, feeding them with the husks of vain hopes, till they perish in their own deceivings. A little serious reflection might convince such, that as many a sick man has hoped to recover, and yet has died; so he who hopes for heaven, should have some foundation for his hope; and that cannot be rightly placed but in the word of truth, and this holds forth Christ as the only refuge of the soul. The hopes of all, therefore, will necessarilv be blasted who do not fly to, and take refuge in him, as certain as many a sick man has been deceived with the hope of recovery. Let all, therefore, beware of deceiving their souls with such hopes as leave them idle, indifferent, censorious, and wrapped up in carnal security; for conversion is quite anather thing, and a well-grounded hope produces very different effects. Tha...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 Excerpt: ...of something like piety in a third, is all that is known of conversion by multitudes, and is considered as quite suilicient! What need is there of making so much ado? We must mind our business. We have something else to do than be always on our knees. God is merciful, and Christ died for all. We love cheerful piety. We are no enthusiasts. We hate so much cant. We hope that our hearts are no worse than others. Thus thousands are deceived, they neither know the nature nor the worth of the wedding garment, nor put it on. The hope of the hypocrite, and that of the unjust man perisheth. They hear this, but are unaffected, because they apply it to others instead of receiving it as their own portion. Hypocrites, with them, are the persecuted followers of the Lamb; and unjust men, fraudulent and dishonest characters. They enlarge on the failings of others, and extenuate or explain away their own; and by these and such like means, contrive to cheat their immortal souls, feeding them with the husks of vain hopes, till they perish in their own deceivings. A little serious reflection might convince such, that as many a sick man has hoped to recover, and yet has died; so he who hopes for heaven, should have some foundation for his hope; and that cannot be rightly placed but in the word of truth, and this holds forth Christ as the only refuge of the soul. The hopes of all, therefore, will necessarilv be blasted who do not fly to, and take refuge in him, as certain as many a sick man has been deceived with the hope of recovery. Let all, therefore, beware of deceiving their souls with such hopes as leave them idle, indifferent, censorious, and wrapped up in carnal security; for conversion is quite anather thing, and a well-grounded hope produces very different effects. Tha...
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