The anxious inquirer after salvation directed and encouraged Volume 1 - Tapa blanda

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. 1850 Excerpt: ...of not obtaining a cure, were greater than your faith, you would gain no peace; the want of confidence in the medicine would keep you in deep solicitude. But sup ose you were to believe the statement of your medical) friend, and had full confidence in the remedy, what then would be the effect of the report? You would immediately rejoice; you would not wait till you had taken the medicine, and till you felt yourself cured, before your solicitude was relieved; no, but as soon as you believed m the eflicacy of the remedy, you would say, " Joyful newsl I am to be healed and restored to health." Now what in this case relieves you from your solicitude, and gives you comfort? The statement of your friend, or, in other words, faith in that statement. The good news of a coming cure, believed by you, makes you glad. It is not the act of believing that you rejoice in, but the statement believed. 'You would immediately take the medicine; and then when you experienced its healing influence, you would rejoice still more. Your joy in this ease would be of two kinds: the first is the joy of faith, in the assurance that you would be cured; the second is the 'o of ex erience, in findin that ou are cured. A-lpiily thispto the case of asinfgier whg feels his miserable condition under the power and guilt of sin. In his anxiety he tries various methods to obtain relief; he leaves off sin, and tries to be good; but a sense of un ardoned sin still lies u on his heart, and he is far o from settled comfort. II; this situation, Christ, the Physician of souls, comes to him in the message of the os cl, and says, " M " blood eleanseth from all sin, gndpmy Spirit can reneiv and sanctify the hardest and most polluted heart: look to me, and thou shalt be saved.&...