A Guide for Young Disciples of the Holy Saviour; In Their Way to Immortality Forming a Sequel to Persuasives to Early Piety - 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.1832 Excerpt: ... ENCOURAGEMENT FROM DIVINE PROMISES. 339 ingratitude to God." Speaking of her views when at the worst, she observed, she would have given the world to have had her sins forgiven; and said, that at that time she saw nothing before her but death, and hell along with it! How flismal a prospect for the day of suffering or dissolution! Yet if you are, or ever become, a backslider, what other prospect can be yours! O watch and pray. Return to the Saviour, or cleave to him. So, when your fainting head can rise from its pillow no more: when the blood grows cold at your heart, and your spirit is about to take its final flight; your prospect may be bright as eternal life, and your peace unshaken as the promises of Christ. CHAPTER XIX. CONSOLATIONS AND ENCOURAGEMENTS FOR THE CHRISTIAN IN HIS SPIRITUAL PILGRIMAGE. § 1. You have now contemplated some of the duties of the Christian life, amj some of the trials of the Christian warfare; yet many are the fountains of consolation to which the Sacred Scriptures direct the thirsty pilgrim's view. For happiness, look to your Redeemer, to your God, and to your home. Look to your Redeemer, and listen to the gracious words that proceed from his compassionate lips. "Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me. He that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." "The Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God." "My sheep hear my v...

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