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. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. HIS FAITHFULNESS IN THE MINISTRY. "Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons, serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears and temptations. "---Acts Xx. 18-19. "3ft/E have seen Mr Erskine in the pulpit. Z y and, in ...
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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. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. HIS FAITHFULNESS IN THE MINISTRY. "Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons, serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears and temptations. "---Acts Xx. 18-19. "3ft/E have seen Mr Erskine in the pulpit. Z y and, in like manner, devout and earnest was his frame of mind when he engaged in other duties of his pastoral office. "I was made," he says, "to plead the promise, that He would hy the Spirit of Truth lead me into all truth, and that He would go along with me this day, and help me to a faithful discharge of that part of my ministerial work that I was going about, --namely, visiting; that He would help me to a solid impression of God upon my spirit, and of the great worth of precious souls, and direct me to speak a word suitable to the case of the people. He abounded in secret prayer; it was his resource in every undertaking. His sermons were begun and ended with it, and his journeys commenced with it; and so his diary is full of gracious recognitions of God's superintending care, and kind interposing hand. Gratitude for mercies received was constantly sweetening his path, and making him exclaim, "0 magnify the Lord with me; let us exalt His name together." The effect of this was, that multitudes came to the Church, whether on Sabbaths or on week days when he kept service. The "Thursday Lecture," which he commenced in the early years of his ministry, attracted many hearers, not any secular business preventing masters and servants from so arranging their work before hand, that they had leisure to attend. Diets of examination, in like manner, had also their crowds of people. In these duties of public catechising and exhorting from house to house, ...
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