A Guide to Christ, Or, the Way of Directing Souls That Are Under the Work of Conversion; Compiled for the Help of Young Ministers, and May Be ... Christians Who Are Inquiring the Way to Zion - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1816. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... comfort of his life, they make him a terror to himself. In this case he may be told, 1. That so far as they are injected by Satan, they are not imputed to him. The heart of man is very bad, and from that fountain of sin, exceeding wicked thoughts may arise; but when persons are violently followed with such thoughts, they are usually injected by Satan, they are some of his fiery darts spoken of, Eph. vi. 16. And when he casts them in, the man is no more guilty, than he that hears a man blaspheme : if a man were perfectly holy, that could not prevent such injections if God let Satan loose upon him. . o 2» That his nature is so corrupted, that those injections do less or more taint him. The heart is like tinder, *and these temptations will make some impression, though he has a detestation of those thoughts, and labors against them, yet there is a principle in the heart to fall in with them ; and generally upon such occasions, persons do contract guilt; and it is but rare if ever, that men are merely passive at such a time : the sin that is in men, does easily beset them, Heb. xii. 1. And therefore it be* comes him to be confessing before God the wretchedness of his own heart, in favoring in any degree those temptations. > > 3. ' T/uit such temptations are no sign that God does not love mm ; he may not gather from thence, that God has given him up to Satuu ; for this /us been the condition of some very gotfty men. This is an exercise that God has brought upon some that have been dear to him : as Satan is wont to tempt the best of men, sO some of the choicest with these sug, gestidns-; this is not too great an affliction to he brought upon such men as God does love ; the Devil may in this manner hurry those that he shall not be able to destroy. Paul in lik...

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