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Excerpt from Extracts From the Spiritual Diary of John Rutty, M.D
As the following Diary is the proper character istic of its author, so does it hold forth to us a spe cimen of the trials and conflicts, the discipline and perseverance that we are called to in our passage through this state of probation, in one way or ano ther for though all are not appointed to the same particular exercises and trials, yet every one has a warfare to accomplish, and therefore comes within the apostle's exortation, to endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ and it is to be well noted, that our greatest foes are those within our selves, even our own natural evil propensities and inbred corruptions; and as to search out and know these is the first part of our business, so to watch and fight against them, in a dependance on that grace which alone is sufficient for our victory, makes the most considerable part of the Christian life to the very end of it. We have here before us a strik ing example of the striving for the mastery, in a good wrestler with flesh and blood for more than the last twenty years of his life, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of his faith, under whose banner he fought, and being faithful unto death, we doubt not his having received a crown of life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
