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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. 1881. Excerpt: ... that He was in the prelates' time; that Gospel cannot sink, it will make you free and bear you out: Christ, the subject of it, is the chosen of God, and cometh from Bozrah, with garments dyed in blood. Ireland and Scotland both must be His field, in which He shall feed and gather lilies. Suppose (which yet is impossible) that some had an eternity of Christ, in Ireland, and a sweet summer of the Gospel, and a feast of fat things for evermore in Ireland, and one should never come to heaven, it should be a desirable life; the King's spikenard, Christ's perfume, His apples of love, His ointments, even down in this lower house of clay, are a choice heaven. 0 what then is the King in His own land! where there is such a throne, so many king's palaces, ten thousand thousands of crowns of glory, that want heads yet to fill them! 0 so much leisure as shall be there to sing! 0 such a tree as groweth there in the midst of that paradise, where the-inhabitants sing eternally under its branches! To look in at a window, and see the branches burdened with the apples of life, to be the last man that shall come in thither, were too much for me. I pray you remember me to the Christians there, and remember our private covenant. Grace be with you. Your friend, in the Lord Jesus, S. R. London, April 17, 1646, LETTER LIII.--To Earlstown, Elder. Sir,--I know ye have learned long ago, ere I knew anything of Christ, that if we had the cross at our own election, we would either have law-surety for freedom from it, or then1 we would have it honeyed and sugared with comforts, so as the sweet should overmaster the gall and wormwood. Christ knoweth how to breed the sons of His house, and ye will give Him leave to take His own way of dispensation with you; and though it be rough, forgive...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150455314
- ISBN 13 9781150455315
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages236
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