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. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ...what a breach had been made in the missionary family! Yet the brethren felt that God had been very gracious to them, in giving them the joy of Pomare's conversion in a time of deep sorrow. It was not so painful to commit a saint to the tomb, as it was delightful to see dead men rising from the grave of sin. ...
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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. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ...what a breach had been made in the missionary family! Yet the brethren felt that God had been very gracious to them, in giving them the joy of Pomare's conversion in a time of deep sorrow. It was not so painful to commit a saint to the tomb, as it was delightful to see dead men rising from the grave of sin. The brethren received from Pomare after his departure very different letters from any he had ever written before. In one of these letters he said, "You indeed will be saved, you are become the people of God: but I may be banished to hell: God may not regard me; I am a wicked Pomare's Penitent Letters. 231 man, and my sins are great, and heaped together." In another letter he said, "I was taken ill about three o'clock on Monday morning last. My affliction is great, but if I can only obtain God's favour before I die, I shall count myself well off. But O! should I die with my sins unpardoned, it will be ill indeed with me. In a third letter Pomare wrote thus: "I continue to pray to God without ceasing. Regardless of other things, I am concerned only that my soul may be saved by Jesus Christ! It is my earnest desire that I may become one of Jehovah's people, and that God may turn away his anger from me, which I deserve for my wickedness, my ignorance of him, and my heaped-up crimes." Some months afterwards Pomare seemed to feel a brighter hope of pardon, for he said in another letter, "I venture with my guilt to Jesus Christ, (though I am not equalled in wickedness, nor equalled in guilt, not equalled in obstinate wickedness and rejection of the truth, ) that this very wicked man may be saved by Jehovah Jesus Christ." The missionaries now thought that Pomare must be really converted, for he seemed so much grieved...
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