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. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ... RELIGIOUS MAXIMS, HAVING A CONNECTION WITH THE DOCTRINES AND PRACTICE OF HOLINESS. I. Faith is the continuance, as well as the beginning of the religious life. No man can be justified in Christ, unless he is willing to renounce all merit and hope in himself; and in the exercise of faith receive Christ alone ...
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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. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ... RELIGIOUS MAXIMS, HAVING A CONNECTION WITH THE DOCTRINES AND PRACTICE OF HOLINESS. I. Faith is the continuance, as well as the beginning of the religious life. No man can be justified in Christ, unless he is willing to renounce all merit and hope in himself; and in the exercise of faith receive Christ alone as the propitiation for his sins. No man can experience the grace of sanctification, unless, renouncing all other means of sanctification, all wisdom and all strength of his own, he is willing to receive from God, in the exercise of faith, that wisdom and thatstrength, moment by moment, without which, the sanctification of the heart cannot exist. II. Seek holiness rather than consolation. Not that consolation is to be despised, or thought lightly of; but solid and permanent consqlation is the result rather than the forerunner of holiness; therefore he, who seeks consolation as a distinct and independent object, will miss it. Seek and possess holiness, and consolation, (not perhaps often in the form of exstatic and rapturous joys, but rather of solid and delightful peace, ) will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun. He, who is holy, must be happy. in. In whatever you are called upon to do, endeavor to maintain a calm, collected, and prayerful state of mind. Self-recollection is of great importance. "It is good for a man to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord." He, who is in what may be called a spiritual hurry, or rather who runs without having evidence of being spiritually sent, makes haste to no purpose. IV., Be silent when blamed and reproached unjustly, and under such circumstances that the reproachful and injurious person will be likely, under the influence of his own reflections, to...
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