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Excerpt from The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul: Illustrated in a Course of Serious and Practical Addresses, Suited to Persons of Every Character and Circumstance; With a Devout Meditation, or Prayer, Added to Each Chapter
Stages of. Conviction, Terror b'e previous to his sincerely acce ting the Gospel, and devoting himself to the rvice of Goo; yet I would' by no Means be thought to insinuate, that econ; one, Who is brought to that happy Reg ablation, arrives at it: throu h those particular' Steps, or feels 'agitations of ind ual in Degree to those'i have described: Some use of in, ' and some serious and humbling Apprehension of our Danger and Misery in Consequence of it, must, indeed be necessary to dispose us to receive the Grace of the Gospel, and the exhibited to our Faith. But G0!) is pleased some times to begin the Work of His Grace onthe Heart, almost from the first dawning of Reason, and to by such ntle and insensible Degrees, that very excellent orsons, who have made the most eminent Attainments in Divine Life, have unable to recount any remarkable History of their Conversion And so far as I can learn, this is most the Case with those of them, who have e Benefits of a ions Education, when been succeeded fly a vicious and fionsi Youth. Gon forbid such should be so insensible of their own pious, as to fall into E lexity with Relation to their Spiritual State, for out of be' able to trace 'such a'orise of Rel-ignon' in their inds, as it was necessary on any [an for me to describe. 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.
