This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 edition. Excerpt: ... CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. No. VII. THE HOPE OF SALVATION THE BEST SAFEGUARD OF THE UNDERSTANDING AGAINST ERROR, AND OF THE HEART AGAINST SIN. Alexander the Great having, on one occasion, distributed the whole of his private fortune amongst his friends and generals, was asked, why he left nothing for ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 edition. Excerpt: ... CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. No. VII. THE HOPE OF SALVATION THE BEST SAFEGUARD OF THE UNDERSTANDING AGAINST ERROR, AND OF THE HEART AGAINST SIN. Alexander the Great having, on one occasion, distributed the whole of his private fortune amongst his friends and generals, was asked, why he left nothing for himself: "Hope is still left for me," said the ardent monarch. And, in the affairs of this life, hope is still the last thing which we relinquish. It seats itself upon the throne of the heart in the morning of life, and leaves it only when the heart is breaking under the cold hand of death. It hovers around the cradle of our infancy, when "it doth not appear what tve shall be;" and over the coffin of our old age, when it doth not appear what we are. Hope, is the sun that rules the "day/- and the moon that rules the "night" of life. It is the rain-, how which gilds the clouds of our calamity, and the morning
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