ISBN: 9781153095693

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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. 1859 Excerpt: ...within me the grace of humility; may I be clothed therewith--seeing that all which is evil in me is from myself, all which is good in me from the Lord--the giver of every good and of every perfect gift. And how far behind, how immeasurably far in graces and gifts beneath the apostles, and this from our own want of faith. What humiliations did they cheerfully undergo--pleasing not themselves, and receiving with patient endurance all the calumnies and all the wrongs that were so abundantly inflicted upon them. May I be the follower of Paul even as he was of Christ. Prepare me if need be for his sufferings, by a resolute principle of adherence to the great cause of the gospel in the world, and this grounded on the faith and patience of the saints. O let me not be satisfied with Thy kingdom in word only; may I know it in power. Give me the spirit of love, and of power, and of a sound mind; give me to feel practically and in its governing influence the truth as it is in Jesus, that I may be sanctified by that truth, and that by it I may be made free from the law of sin and death. And O let this be permanent as well as powerful, lest I be of the number of those who have once tasted of the powers of the world to come, and at length fall away. Save me from the fate of those who have the form of godliness without the power thereof--who have a name to live, and yet are dead. L CORINTHIANS V. When reflecting on the excesses of depravity whereof our nature is capable, it were well to reduce the generality of the sentiment, and bring it particularly home. Thou knowest, O God, all the enormities to which I might go if abandoned to the headlong impulses of my own corrupt disposition. O that my own consciousness of this were of more effect to soften and to humble me; and w... Thomas Chalmers, Books, History, Posthumous Works Of The Rev. Thomas Chalmers Volume 4 Books>History <