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. 1850 Excerpt: ...how those very duties which he finds so irksome can yield to some their best comfort and their richest pleasure? Can he conceive how what is so unwelcome to himself can be a feast to others? No; for this is meat to eat which he knows not of. Yet it is true nevertheless of all the people of the Lord, that their best ...
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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. 1850 Excerpt: ...how those very duties which he finds so irksome can yield to some their best comfort and their richest pleasure? Can he conceive how what is so unwelcome to himself can be a feast to others? No; for this is meat to eat which he knows not of. Yet it is true nevertheless of all the people of the Lord, that their best hours are when they can enjoy communion with their God, whether in public or in private. Prayer indeed is not always to them what it is at times; for they are too often dull and formal in that and every other duty. But there are seasons when they enjoy upon their knees what makes the world and all its vanities seem dross indeed--when they are brought nigh Prov. xxxi. 6. + Ps. xxiii. 2. to heaven's gates, and seem but at a small remove from the blessed company of worshippers above. They get so near their God--they gain so close a view of him by faith--they press their suit with such a blessed confidence, and with such assurance that the ears of God are open to them, that it seems impossible to rise on earth to any higher joy. It is a rich repast to them again to hear the word when faithfully administered. The word preached profits in their case, for it is "mixed with faith in them that heard it." It is a blessed means, in the Spirit's hands, of nourishing and strengthening their souls, and of carrying them forward in the path of life. The language of the Psalmist is their language too; "Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth."f "How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. "J There are too many, I fear, whose consciences are telling them that they ...
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