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. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ...sinners meet, Adoring at his feet. 56. Divine Love. Godly sorrow, like weeping Mary, seeks Christ; saving faith, like wrestling Jacob, finds and holds Christ; heavenly love, operating in the breast of a Christian, causes him to enjoy sweet communion with Christ. It brings him into his banqueting house, and his ...
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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. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ...sinners meet, Adoring at his feet. 56. Divine Love. Godly sorrow, like weeping Mary, seeks Christ; saving faith, like wrestling Jacob, finds and holds Christ; heavenly love, operating in the breast of a Christian, causes him to enjoy sweet communion with Christ. It brings him into his banqueting house, and his banner over him is love. He esteems Christ as the chief among ten thousand, and the altogether lovely; and he would part with all his possessions rather than with him who is the pearl of great price. Divine love constrains the believer, and he longs to see his Saviour in the realms above; but at the same time it induces him to wait his will, and while in this world to love his cause, his people, and to seek his glory; and in short, to spend and be spent for him. Yes! love indeed is light from heaven! A spark of that immortal fire, With angels shared, by Jesus given, To lift from earth our low desire. Devotion wafts the mind above, But heaven itself descends in love; A feeling from the Godhead caught, To wean from self each sordid thought; A ray of him who form'd the whole; A glory circling round the soul! 57. Godly Sorrow. The stream of sorrow, like water, ascends no higher than the spring from which it emanates. Sin gives two bloody stabs; the first is at the soul of man, the second at the heart of Christ. If the first stab grieve me, if I mourn for sin, as it has only wounded my soul, it is a sign that this stream flows from a natural heart, because it ascends up to a natural height; but if I weep for sin as it has wounded Christ, and shed his blood which would save me, --asjit has pierced that heart which would love me, then the spring is in heaven, because it rises to a supernatural ascent. Lord, that my sorrow may be real, pierce my...
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