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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. 1811 edition. Excerpt: ... cry, The hest are dead sometimes; and so maintain their hopes, although they lie dead whole months and years together, and live in sin, and never come to sound repentance. Others cry, You will discourage weak christians; meaning themselves. Just as if there were a sort of christians that cannot bear the light, nor stand a scriptural trial. What will they do when they come before the awful bar of the heart-searching God! Others cry, But every christian does not experience alike; and so, though they are destitute of the very essence and life of religion, yet thej hope all is well; and many are confident that these things are not so. For, say they, if these things be true, who then shall be saved? I answer, Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leads to life; and few there be that find it-But wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many go in thereat. Mat. vii. 13, 14. And mark what follows in the next verse, (15.) Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves, (ver. 16.) Ye shall know them by their fruits. By what fruits? Why, this is the constant character of false prophets throughout the Bible, that they cry, Peace and safety, and heal the wound of poor sinners slightly, and daub with untempered mortar; i. e. they make religion to be an easier thing than it is 4 more agreeable to corrupt nature; and so encourage sinners to rest in something short of true grace. So the Pharisees did, notwithstanding all their pretended strictness; and so the Arminiam do, notwithstanding all their seeming zeal for good works; and so the Antinomiam do, notwithstanding all their pretences to extraordinary light, and joy, and zeal, and purity, and holiness. And...

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