A Description of the Work of Divine Grace on the Souls of Saved Sinners

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. 1800 Excerpt: ...work in our fouls, and the manner in which ho is pleased to carry it on, by the light of his word and the teachings of his Spirit. slut remember, that small beginnings are real, and therefore not to be despised or neglected, but nourished andcherished. The spiritual babesf must be fed with the sincere milk of the word, that they may grow thereby. For 5 Ps. xcvii. 11--xix. 5. Isa. liv. il. Mark iv. 26 to 28. t I. Pet. ii. a. For in the natural world, a child must be long fed and. nourished before it becomes a man: and in the spiritual world, the babe in grace must be long instructed and comforted by the gospel and its precious doctrines and promises, even till it is fully perfected inlova and holiness, and ripened for eternal glory. Now my dear Civicns, I hope you fee your features in this mirror I have set before you, and that you can discern the face of the new creation on your mind; and that, consequently, you worship God in spirit and in truth, and that you are one of his adopted children. Cbuicus. Dear Evangeli/la, I think I can, as you fay, fee my features in this mirror; and though I am conscious of the remaining of many dark spots; yet I trust they are but the spots of my father's children, for I can now fay, I believe (though not so strongly as I could with) that the new creationf is wrought, and I am a true worshipper. Evan. am glad of it my friend, and permit me now to make another observation to you;--though the Lord makes use of appointed means to prepare his people for glory; yet it is clear from scripture, that he could do it at once, as he did the penitent dying thief on the cross, if he saw good to do so; but he chuses to adopt means, and time to disciple them, as well as to cherish them, and to make them Ihine as lights in this world, for t...