This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ... Most professors are like iron between two equal loadstones: God draws, and they incline towards God; and the world draws, and they incline to the world; they are between both; they would not leave God for the world, if they might not be engaged to I?ave the worli for God. But if they must part with ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ... Most professors are like iron between two equal loadstones: God draws, and they incline towards God; and the world draws, and they incline to the world; they are between both; they would not leave God for the world, if they might not be engaged to I?ave the worli for God. But if they must part with all, with every lust, every darling, every beloved sin; why then the spirit of Dermis possesses them, and God is forsaken by them. My brethren, this is the great reason why many that come to be but almost Christians go no farther; some one beloved lust or other hinders them, andyafter a long and high profession, parts them'and Christ for ever: they did run well--(Gal. v. a, ) but here it is that they give out, and after all fall short, and perish to eternity* Thus having answered these four questions; namely, 1. "How far a man may go in the way to heaven, and yet be but almost a Christian;" 2. "Whence it is that a man goeth so far as to be almost a Christian;" 3. "Whence it is that a man is but almost a Christian when he hath gone thus far;" 4. "What is the reason men go no farther in religion, than to be almost Christians: " I proceed now to the application. Inference I. "That salvation is not so easy a thing as it is imagined to be: " this is attested by onr Lord himself; Mat', vi. 14, "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leaclett* to life, and few there be that find it." The gate of conversion is a very strait gate, and yet every man that would be saved eternally, must enter in at this strait gate, for salvation is impossible without it. "Except a man he born again," (born from above, ) "he cannot see the kingdom of God." Not that this gate is strait simply, and in respect of itself: no, for converting grace is free; the "gate of...
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