Extracts from the Letters of James Backhouse |
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Author:
| Backhouse, James |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-71694-9 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2012 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $12.93 |
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: set out, we may also know our voyage towards the kingdom of Heaven to have made progress, and be prepared to live to the glory of God during the remainder of our sojourn in this state of being. After we separated our company conducted themselves in an orderly manner, and many of them borrowed books of us,...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: set out, we may also know our voyage towards the kingdom of Heaven to have made progress, and be prepared to live to the glory of God during the remainder of our sojourn in this state of being. After we separated our company conducted themselves in an orderly manner, and many of them borrowed books of us, and spent their time in reading. In the afternoon I read the 22nd Psalm to the passengers in the steerage, and spoke to them on the greatness of the love of God, in sending his Son into the world to save sinners, and of the greatness of the love of Christ in coming into the world to die for us, bearing our sins in his own body on the cross, and sympathising with the state of forlorn, helpless sinners. These things were pressed upon their attention as motives of incitement to the love of God, and as an encouragement to sinners to seek for mercy, as well as being grounds of condemnation to those whp neglect to avail themselves of the mercy offered us in the Gospel. The attention of the company was also directed to the influence of the Holy Spirit, condemning for sin, and bringing serious thoughtfulness over the mind; and encouragement was extended to them to cherish these feelings, and to come under the yoke of Christ, and to bear it so as to know it to be easy. These are a people on whom little labour has been bestowed, but whom the love of God is following. About two weeks after their embarkation, J. B. observes, It is a great comfort in our solitary situation, to be permitted to feel a little of that quiet and comfortable contentment which are mercifully continued to us, as an evidence of our being in our right allotment. For this unmerited favour my soul bows in humble reverence before the Most High, and ascribes unto Him who sit- teth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, ...