Much Instruction from Little Reading (Volume 2); Or, Extracts from Some of the Most Approved Authors, Ancient and Modern. to Which Are Added, Some ... the Present Time. Also, Extensive Scriptu - Softcover

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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. 1827. Excerpt: ... 15 while they are careless about the graces which God is ever ready to bestow upon all, and which always accompany salvation. Let me possess, O God, an humble and a charitable spirit, though with the simplicity of a child: rather than "speak with the tongue of men or of angels," and be destitute of it. p. 77. "Enoch walked with God."--Every thing else is transitory and fading. Youthful vigour and beauty are but the short-lived flowers of the spring, which die as soon as they are born; the honourable distinctions of this world are bubbles of empty air, which burst in a moment, and disappear forever; scientific researches and discoveries, are only the amusements of children, who know but in part, and see as "in a glass darkly:" but holy walking with God is the honourable employment of a man: it is a permanent and perennial source of satisfaction, it is the essence of life; the cure of pain; the conqueror of death; the gate of immortality; t is Heaven upon earth. And wherein does it consist?" Can two walk together, except they be agreed?--No.--Walking with God must therefore commence in reconciliation to God: and scripture knows,acknowledges, teaches no other way of reconciliation but one. p. 78. "By faith Enoch was translated,--before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.--But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that Cometh to God. must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." Now, in every age of the world, faith has but one and the same object. From Abel down to the youngest of the prophets, and from the fisherman who left his nets, and his wordly all to follow Jesus. to the end of time, the being, the nature, and the will of God have been, and can be savingly known, and the me...

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