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. 1880 Excerpt: ...danger of presenting these higher motives as a sort of purchase-money for Divine favour, seeing he is already beginning to enjoy the consciousness of God's favourable regard. "I have no real desire to come to Christ." This is a particularly difficult objection to deal with, and it is one that, when once taken up, is ...
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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. 1880 Excerpt: ...danger of presenting these higher motives as a sort of purchase-money for Divine favour, seeing he is already beginning to enjoy the consciousness of God's favourable regard. "I have no real desire to come to Christ." This is a particularly difficult objection to deal with, and it is one that, when once taken up, is frequently clung to with a pertinacity almost amounting to obstinacy. The special difficulty is perhaps due to the fact that you can only meet it by combating its truth; and it does seem little short of an impertinence to profess to know more of a person's inner experiences than he does himself. Yet this is often the actual state of the case. A common proverb affirms that "a looker-on knows most of the game;" and it not unfrequently happens that the soul is so agitated by conflicting experiences, so bewildered by unaccustomed attempts at introspection, that it cannot admit the calm and dispassionate view of its own case that a Christian adviser or friend will naturally take. What does this startling assertion really mean? If it be literally true, the case is foreclosed, and it is difficult to see what more can be done or said; for without some kind of desire there can be no moral action; but is it actually true? Is not the very fact that such words often--usually, indeed--are met with on the lips of an inquirer--of one, that is to say, who is content to submit to accept, or even to seek for, that which so many shrink from--spiritual counsel and assistance, a sufficient indication that, whatever may be asserted to the contrary, some kind of desire is present? Is not the person who so speaks generally uneasy, discontented, far from happy? The error which leads to such a depressing conclusion usually lies in the acceptance of so...
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