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Today brought a rainstorm, the rainstorm brought a leak in the roof, and the leak in the roof brought about moving a bunch of books to prevent water damage. Out of that comes the Episcopal Recorder, a newspaper from the 1840s. Soon to be for sale, I have been flipping through it and realized that it has pieces written by men I admire and respect. These include John Newton, William Jay, Thomas

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Readers - many of whom are no doubt no longer readers (and thus not reading this) because of my lengthy lapse in posting:My lapse was partly for the reasons stated in previous posts. They are true. But there are weightier matters that influenced my hiatus from posting than I previously mentioned. Namely, I'm now married. The time I previously had put into books and these postings was spent

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"Prayer is the child of faith; praise of love. Prayer is prospective; praise takes in, in its wide range, enjoyment of present, remembrance of past, and anticipation of future, blessings. Prayer points the only way to heaven; praise is already there."- Hannah More

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To the Readers:I've been out of town (and thus away from my source materials) more often than not for the past 6 months, which may serve as an explanation for my long breaks in posting here. Some of my trips away from home I have taken materials with me to type up and post, but others it hasn't worked out to do that. If I'm away from home I also can't just wander around until I find an

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thePresbyterian MagazineApril, 1858.edited by Rev. C. Van Rensselaer, D.D.Published in Philadelphia by Joseph M. Wilson.Fragments. p192.“Working Christians”Learn to be working Christians. “Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.” It is very striking to see the usefulness of many Christians. Are there none of you who know what it is to be selfish in your

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From the Introduction to Praying and Working; Being Some account of what Men can Do when in Earnest, by Rev. William Fleming Stevenson. (Printed by Robert Carter in New York, 1863). Praying and Working“...Work is lauded and glorified, even for its own sake, without regard to its end. It is held to be something sacred, a thoroughly manly and almost devout pursuit. Nay, it has been exalted

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From the Presbyterian Magazine, October 1858. Edited by Dr. Van Rensselaer. Pages 452-458. “Bible Theology Consistent with Human Reason”Part 4 III. God’s beneficent design and wish to restore man to his original purity, and the difficulty of reconciling the claims of his justice, with the designs of his mercy. Nature teaches us not only that there is a God, a great, self-existent,

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"This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest, and this is the refreshing"--"Effectual fervent prayer" -- James v.16"If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask?" -- Matt vii.11PrayerThere is a reposeful rest beyond all other at the mercy-seat. When the hurricane of

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"What is it to be a Christian?”In these days when the Spirit of God is searching the hearts of men and convincing them of sin, the inquiry often arises, “Am I a Christian?”This question is not to be settled by vague impressions, made in some mysterious way upon the mind. Nor is it safe to permit dreams, visions, or voices to settle this question. Nor will the sudden recurrence of the mind to

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From The Autobiography of Charles H. Spurgeon, complied from his Diary, Letters, and Records, by His wife and His Private Secretary. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society. 4 Volumes. This quote from Volume 1, pages 15-16 An Apple in a Bottle. I remember well, in my early days, seeing upon my grandmother’s mantel-shelf an apple contained in a phial. This was a great wonder to

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From the Presbyterian Magazine, September 1858. Rev. C. Van Rensselaer, editor. Pages 405-406. [edited by SML – or shall I say, (lightly) freshened?] “A Gem From An Old Casket.”... “The desire of novelty,” says Mr. Hamilton of London, writer of The Mount of Olives, “is not in itself blameworthy; but there is one form of it which we would like to see more frequent. To freshen old truths is

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From the Presbyterian Magazine, October 1858. Edited by Dr. Van Rensselaer. Pages 452-458. "Bible Theology Consistent with Human Reason"Part 2. I. Man’s original creation in a state of purity and holiness. It is a fact well known, that ancient philosophers had arrived at this truth without the revelation of the bible. Aristotle bases his system of ethics upon the assumption that all

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From the Presbyterian Magazine, October 1858. Edited by Dr. Van Rensselaer. Pages 452-458. “Bible Theology Consistent with Human Reason” Part 1The philosophy of the plan of salvation, as revealed and developed in the sacred Scriptures, has so often been considered, and the consistency of the revealed with the natural law so often shown, that one cannot expect to advance any new views of the

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from To the Reader, by Samuel Clifford "...[Baxter] having no where in his works, (as I have observed) given any directions to those who were once oppressed with Melancholy, but are delivered from it, I shall take the liberty to subjoin a few things by way of advice to such...IV. Magnify the mercy of God toward you, in bringing you out of your sad, dark, and disconsolate condition. ... What a

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I ask your pardon for breaking away from my practice and purpose hitherto of only posting unreprinted works, but as I was reading this today I felt a strong urge to post it despite the fact that I’m reading the (modern) Soli Deo Gloria edition, thus implying that it's been reprinted. I highly recommend this sermon. [Jeremiah Burroughs, Gospel Worship. First published 1648, published by Soli

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thePresbyterian MagazineApril, 1858.edited by Rev. C. Van Rensselaer, D.D.Published in Philadelphia by Joseph M. Wilson. From Household Thoughts: “A Woman’s Growth in Beauty,” If women could only believe it, there is a wonderful beauty even in growing old. The charm of expression arising from softened temper or ripened intellect, often amply atones for the loss of form and colouring;

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thePresbyterian MagazineFebruary, 1858.edited by Rev. C. Van Rensselaer, D.D.Published in Philadelphia by Joseph M. Wilson, p87. From Household Thoughts: “Little Children A Great Help” I am fond of little children. I think them the poetry of the world; the fresh flowers of our hearths and homes – little conjurors, with their “natural magic,” evoking by their spells what delights and

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the Presbyterian MagazineFebruary, 1858.edited by Rev. C. Van Rensselaer, D.D.Published in Philadelphia by Joseph M. Wilson, p86. From Household Thoughts: “Religious Education for the Young.” “...The true idea of religious education may be stated in general terms as consisting in the proper cultivation and improvement of our moral powers; yet not independent of intellectual culture, but

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The Presbyterian MagazineJanuary, 1850Miscellaneous Articles. Individuality in the Church It was a custom of the Apostles to send their Christian salutations to individual believers in the churches to which their epistles were written, but in no other epistle is it done so largely as in that to the Church at Rome.In the last chapter there are not fewer than twenty-eight persons mentioned by name

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Henry Scudder, The Christian’s Daily Walk in holy Security and Peace. Phila, Presbyterian Board, nd. Pages 109-115. [barely edited by SML] Chapter 8: Of Company in General. Rules Concerning It. Part 3Fourthly, your conversations amongst all must be loving: you should be kind and courteous towards all men, Tit. iii.2. Do good to all, according as you have ability and opportunity, Gal.vi

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Henry Scudder, The Christian’s Daily Walk in holy Security and Peace. Phila, Presbyterian Board, nd. Pages 109-115. [barely edited by SML]Chapter 8: Of Company in General. Rules Concerning It. Part 2.Thirdly, You must be wise and discreet in your carriage towards all, and that in divers particulars. Be not too open, nor too reserved; not over suspicious, 1 Cor. Xiii.7, nor over credulous,

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Henry Scudder, The Christian’s Daily Walk in holy Security and Peace. Phila, Presbyterian Board, nd. Pages 109-115. [barely edited by SML]Of Company in General. Rules Concerning It.When you are in company, of whatever sort, you must amongst them walk with God.Directions relating to this are of two sorts:First, showing how you should behave towards all:Secondly, how you should behave towards

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I've been in and out of town and time recently; I will try to begin putting up excerpts of what I perceive to be good reading on this site again more regularly.I'm open to input as to what is more and less profitable or helpful. If you have feedback for what is worth your time and energy to read, please let me know so that I don't end up spending my time typing things up to no purpose. Thanks

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The Signs and Causes of Melancholy, with directions suited to the case of those who are afflicted with it. Collected out of the works of Mr. Richard Baxter, for the sake of those, who are wounded in Spirit. By Samuel Clifford, minister of the Gospel London, Bible and Three Crowns, 1716. pp85-87. [Edited and abridged by SML.] Chapter 4: Directions to the Melancholy. Direction 9. When you

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The Signs and Causes of Melancholy, with directions suited to the case of those who are afflicted with it. Collected out of the works of Mr. Richard Baxter, for the sake of those, who are wounded in Spirit. By Samuel Clifford, minister of the Gospel London, Bible and Three Crowns, 1716. pp83-85. [Edited and abridged by SML.] Chapter 4: Directions to the Melancholy. When the disease is

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The Signs and Causes of Melancholy, with directions suited to the case of those who are afflicted with it. Collected out of the works of Mr. Richard Baxter, for the sake of those, who are wounded in Spirit. By Samuel Clifford, minister of the Gospel London, Bible and Three Crowns, 1716. pp51-66. [Edited and abridged by SML.]Click here for an introduction to Baxter on MelancholyChapter 4:

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The Signs and Causes of Melancholy, with directions suited to the case of those who are afflicted with it. Collected out of the works of Mr. Richard Baxter, for the sake of those, who are wounded in Spirit. By Samuel Clifford, minister of the Gospel London, Bible and Three Crowns, 1716. pp51-66. [Edited and abridged by SML.] Click here for an introduction to Baxter on MelancholyChapter 4:

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I was looking for something new to put up and ran across a brief treatise (Francis Fuller, A Treatise of Grace And Duty. London, 1688.), from which I took these quotes. Be warned: I have significantly altered the sentence structure. Fuller apparently had a fascination with the words "this" and "that", as well as the use (misuse, to my mind) of commas. It took me a while to figure out his

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The Presbyterian Magazine.January, 1860.Edited by Rev. C. Van Rensselaer, D.D.Chestnut St, Philadelphia.pages 8-11 “Fearless Conservatism, or the Spirit of Power, of Love, and of a sound Mind.”II. The gift of this “spirit of power” is accompanied by the gift of the “spirit of LOVE,” love to God and to the souls of men. This love is reciprocal. “We love Him because he first loved us

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The Presbyterian Magazine.January, 1860.Edited by Rev. C. Van Rensselaer, D.D.Chestnut St, Philadelphia.pages 8-11 “Fearless Conservatism, or the Spirit of Power, of Love, and of a sound Mind.”III. The power and love of this heavenly temper is joined to “A SOUND MIND.” The Greek word signifies “a sober mind;” one pervaded by prudence and discretion, well-balanced, and under right influences; in

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The Signs and Causes of Melancholy, with directions suited to the case of those who are afflicted with it. Collected out of the works of Mr. Richard Baxter, for the sake of those, who are wounded in Spirit. By Samuel Clifford, minister of the Gospel London, Bible and Three Crowns, 1716. pp51-66. [Edited and abridged by SML.] Click here for an introduction to Baxter on MelancholyChapter 4:

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The Presbyterian Magazine.January, 1860.Edited by Rev. C. Van Rensselaer, D.D.Chestnut St, Philadelphia.pages 8-11 “Fearless Conservatism, or the Spirit of Power, of Love, and of a sound Mind.” In times of perplexity, we should endeavor to act upon the principle of fearless conservatism. God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. “The

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The Signs and Causes of Melancholy, with directions suited to the case of those who are afflicted with it. Collected out of the works of Mr. Richard Baxter, for the sake of those, who are wounded in Spirit. By Samuel Clifford, minister of the Gospel London, Bible and Three Crowns, 1716. pp51-66. [Edited and abridged by SML.]Click here for an introduction to Baxter on Melancholy Chapter 4:

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thePresbyterian MagazineFebruary, 1854. edited by Rev. C. Van Rensselaer, D.D.Philadelphia, C. Sherman, printer. pp95-96. [mildly modernized - SML] “The Spirit’s Intercessions” “Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities; for we know not what we should pray for as we ought; but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.” Rom. 8:26.

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Henry Scudder, The Christian’s Daily Walk in holy Security and Peace. Phila, Presbyterian Board, nd. [edited, abridged, and modernized by SML] 137-140. Remedies against sinful anger, to help you, so that passion and heat of anger do not kindle, or at least do not break out beyond appropriate bounds.1. Convince your judgment thoroughly that passion and rash anger is forbidden and hated by God,

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Of Reading.Besides your set times of reading the holy Scriptures, you will do well to take some of your free time to read God’s book and the good books of men. How to read profitably. When you read any part of the word of God, you must differentiate between it and the best writings of men, preferring it far before them. Consider it in its properties and excellencies. No word is of

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Thomas Brooks, The Mute Christian under the Smarting Rod, with Sovereign Antidotes... Seventh Edition. London, 1699.[Abridged, edited, and extracted by SML.]Reason 5. A fifth reason why gracious souls should be mute and silent under the greatest afflictions and sharpest trials that do befall them is this, because a holy, a prudent silence, under afflictions, under miseries, does best capacitate

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from J. R. Macduff, Palms of Elim; or Rest and Refreshment in the Valleys. New York: Carter, 1879."And they came to Elim ['Valleys'], where were ... threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there." -- Exodus 15:27"This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest, and this is the refreshing"--"He which hath begun a good work in you, will perform it unto the day of Jesus Christ." -

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Thomas Brooks, The Mute Christian under the Smarting Rod, with Sovereign Antidotes... Seventh Edition.London, 1699. [Abridged, edited, and extracted by SML.] Why must Christians be mute and silent under the greatest afflictions, the saddest providences, and sharpest trials that they meet with in this world? Reason 1. That they may better hear and understand the voice of the Rod. As the

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The Presbyterian Magazine, October 1855.Physical Benefit of Sunday.The Sabbath is God's special present to the working man, and one of its chief objects is to prolong his life, and preserve efficient his working tone. In the vital system it acts like a compensation pool; it replenishes the spirits, the elasticity, and vigour, which the six have drained away, and supplies the force which is to

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a 'Brevity' fromThe Presbyterian MagazineFebruary, 1858.edited by Rev. C. Van Rensselaer, D.D.Published in Philadelphia by Joseph M. Wilson. "Trials"It is not in the light and sunny places of the wilderness that the traveler most sweetly reposes. It is under the shadow of a great rock, or in the depth of a sequestered valley; and so it is with a Christian. The sun of prosperity withers our joys,

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Thomas Brooks, The Mute Christian under the Smarting Rod, with Sovereign Antidotes... Seventh Edition. London, 1699. [Abridged, edited, and extracted by SML.] What does holy patience not exclude? (continued)Fifthly, a holy, a prudent silence does not exclude moderate mourning or weeping under the afflicting hand of God. Sixthly, a gracious, a prudent silence does not exclude sighing,

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Thomas Brooks, The Mute Christian under the Smarting Rod, with Sovereign Antidotes... Seventh Edition. London, 1699. [Abridged, edited, and extracted by SML.]What does holy patience not exclude? First, a holy, prudent silence under affliction does not exclude and shut out a sense and feeling of our afflictions, Ps. 39, though he was dumb, and laid his hand upon his mouth, verse 9, yet he was

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Thomas Brooks, The Mute Christian under the Smarting Rod, with Sovereign Antidotes... Seventh Edition. London, 1699. [Abridged, edited, and extracted by SML.] What does a prudent, a gracious, a holy silence include? (continued)Fifthly, a holy silence takes in gracious, blessed, soul-quieting conclusions about the issue and event of the afflictions that are on us, Lam 3.27-34. In this you

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My most recent find in wandering around the house is Thomas Brook's The Mute Christian under the Smarting Rod, not a title which makes me think of a nice relaxing evening by the fire. It's not a nice, relaxing book, either, but it's definitely worth reading. It's easy to skim over verses like Psalm 39:9 (I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because You did it), on which this book is based. It's

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Thomas Brooks, The Mute Christian under the Smarting Rod, with Sovereign Antidotes... Seventh Edition. London, 1699. [Abridged, edited, and extracted by SML.]Psalm 39:9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because You did it....There is prudent silence, a holy, a gracious silence, a silence that springs from prudent principles, from holy principles and from gracious causes and considerations, and

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Thomas Brooks, The Mute Christian under the Smarting Rod, with Sovereign Antidotes... Seventh Edition. London, 1699. [Abridged, edited, and extracted by SML.] The Epistle Dedicatory: [To give a little good counsel as you read,] as that it may turn much to your soul's advantages; for, as many fish and catch nothing, so many read good books and get nothing, because they read them over

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thePresbyterian MagazineFebruary, 1854.edited by Rev. C. Van Rensselaer, D.D.Philadelphia, C. Sherman, printer. “On Sleeping in Church,” p62. Do not sleep too long and late Sabbath mornings. Nothing is gained by it but additional drowsiness. The Scripture holds good emphatically here, as it respects extra sleep, “to him that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance,” even in

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An edited and (quite) abridged excerpt from The Signs and Causes of Melancholy, with directions suited to the case of those who are afflicted with it. Collected out of the works of Mr. Richard Baxter, for the sake of those, who are wounded in Spirit. By Samuel Clifford, minister of the Gospel London, Bible and Three Crowns, 1716. Extracted from Pages xi-xlvi. To the Reader, by Samuel Clifford

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thePresbyterian MagazineFebruary, 1858.edited by Rev. C. Van Rensselaer, D.D.Published in Philadelphia by Joseph M. Wilson. Brevities. “Life,” p94-95. The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and light; to pace around in the mill of habits, and turn the mill of wealth; to make reason our bookkeeper, and thought an implement of trade—this

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An edited and (quite) abridged excerpt from The Signs and Causes of Melancholy, with directions suited to the case of those who are afflicted with it. Collected out of the works of Mr. Richard Baxter, for the sake of those, who are wounded in Spirit. By Samuel Clifford, minister of the Gospel London, Bible and Three Crowns, 1716. Extracted from Pages xi-xlvi. from To the Reader, by Samuel

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What is “Melancholy”? I hesitate to answer that and soon Baxter will speak for himself, but since that may be the question in your mind, I want to address it now. If you disagree, please feel free to reasonably (and briefly) let me know why or how I should change this post. Do read on in Baxter as I post him for a better understanding. Until then, basically Melancholy is an old term for some

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an excerpt from The Spirit of Prayer, by Hannah More. New York: Swords, Stanford, and Co., 1883, pages 22-25.From chapter XI, of Perseverance in Prayer and Praise, pages 154-158.We think, perhaps, that had [God] commanded us "to do some great thing," to raise some monument of splendor, some memorial of notoriety and ostentation, something that would perpetuate our own name with his goodness, we

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An Excerpt from The Spirit of Prayer, by Hannah More. New York: Swords, Stanford, and Co., 1883.from Chapter XI, Of Perseverance in Prayer and Praise, page 153."Prayer draws all the Christian graces into its focus. It draws Charity, followed by her lovely train, her forbearance with faults, her forgiveness of injuries, her pity for errors, her compassion for want. It draws Repentance, with her

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A Treatise of Miscellany Questions: Wherein Many useful Questions and Cases of Conscience are discussed and resolved: for the satisfaction of those, who desire nothing more, than to search for and find out the precious truths, in the controversies of these times. By Mr. George Gillespie, late minister at Edinburgh. Published posthumously by his brother, Mr. Patrik Gillespie, minister

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A Treatise of Miscellany Questions: Wherein Many useful Questions and Cases of Conscience are discussed and resolved: for the satisfaction of those, who desire nothing more, than to search for and find out the precious truths, in the controversies of these times. By Mr. George Gillespie, late minister at Edinburgh. Published posthumously by his brother, Mr. Patrik Gillespie, minister at

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Excerpted from The Spirit of Prayer, by Hannah More. New York: Swords, Stanford, and Co., 1883, pages 16-18.Chapter II.The Duty of Prayer Inferred from the Helplessness of Man, pp 16-18.Man is not only a sinful, he is also a helpless, and therefore a dependent being. This offers new and powerful motives for the necessity of prayer, the necessity of looking continually to a higher power, to a

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thePresbyterian MagazineMay, 1858.edited by Rev. C. Van Rensselaer, D.D.Published in Philadelphia by Joseph M. Wilson, pp 239-240.This copy was owned and signed by Rev. Charles Hodge.------To Those Commencing A Religious LifeDo not expect so sudden and remarkable a change as to leave no doubt of its reality. Did religion enter the soul in perfection, and to the entire exclusion of sin, the change

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Ever since she sent her kids off to college (regardless of the fact that we returned home at some point), my mommy has made the time to do a fair bit of reading. Occasionally she writes out quotes from what she reads. This is an anonymous (unless or until she remembers who said it) quote which has hung on our kitchen cabinet for a few years now. "What is prayer but the breathing forth of that

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A few weeks back, my mommy handed me a book she read recently. In thinking about this blog, the recommendation written by Richard Baxter for the book stuck me as both informative and a guiding principle for what books I read should be. Perhaps another time I will divulge what Scudder himself has to say in this book, but for now, consider this.Recommendationby theRev. Richard Baxter.Reader, I

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I like little books. My dad is very generous. Thus, he semi-regularly gives me little books. Sometimes when he bestows small volumes on me he does so for size or binding. This particular book he gave me for the content (and because I asked nicely).Herewith, an excerpt from The Spirit of Prayer, by Hannah More. New York: Swords, Stanford, and Co., 1883, pages 22-25.Chapter III.Prayer.-- Its

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To all who have ever drooled over the contents of my house:It took about 24.6 years for this to permeate my thick skull in practical terms, but I do indeed live surrounded by a veritable feast for bookworms. In fact, I dare say I live in a fantastic world of which most antiquarian bookworms can only dream.Those who know my situation will attest to this. After all, my father is a bookseller,

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