A Religious Convincement and Plea; For the Baptism and Communion of the Spirit, and That Which Is of Material Bread, Wine and Water Rejected as Jewi

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.1822 Excerpt: ... be hindered of doing that which the Lord would have me to do; and nothing but an immediate revelation from God could serve to secure me from either of these evils, or satisfy my mind on these points. Accordingly the secret places were a witness to my fervent prayers and cries to God, firstly that I might be preserved from backsliding, secondly, that if it was my duty and His will that I should preach, that He would give me the clearest evidences of it: and then, if there should be found in me a disposition not to comply with his requirements, I besought him with tears flowing to the ground, that he would cut off all worldly prosperity, curse in basket and in store, and heap calamities upon me; could that be the means of subduing that proud and disobedient disposition, of which I was naturally possessed; and be the only means of bringing me to do His will.--On the other hand, if it was not my duty to speak, I prayed that the Lord would give equal proofs of his will, and accomplish his will with me; if he would but save my soul alive. So it was with me when I began to be sensible of the spiritual lack of the church; my mind was filled with a double depression of spirit, for I discovered, not only a lack in the church; but I felt sensible of a lack in my own soul. Like a path-way before me, the spiritual eye of my mind plainly discovered the ground which I had not travelled over, and an object which I had not travelled tb. With the condition of the church, and a knowledge of myself, and by the discovery of the truth, I was excited to pray that the Lord would turn, and overturn, by his own special power, until His will, and not mine, should be accomplished. About this time I found cause to call the attention of my Free-will Baptist brethren to to reconsider the...