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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1902. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... PART IV. FROM THE TIME OF HIS EXAMINATION TO HIS FIRST ENTRANCE ON THE BUSINESS OF HIS MISSION. Friday, November 26.--Had still a sense of my great unworthiness^and endeavoured as much as I could to keep alone. O, what a nothing, what dust and ashes am I! Enjoyed some peace and comfort in spreading my complaints before the God of all grace. Saturday, November 27.--Committed my soul to God with some degree of comfort; left New York about nine in the morning; came away with a distressing sense still of my unspeakable depravity. Surely I may well love all my brethren; for none of them all is so vile as I; whatever they do outwardly, yet it seems to me none is conscious of so much guilt before God. O my leanness, my barrenness, my carnality, and past bitterness, and want of a Gospel-temper! These things oppress my soul. Rode from New York, thirty miles, to White Plains, and most of the way continued lifting up my heart to God for mercy and purifying grace; and spent the evening much dejected in spirit. Wednesday, December 1.--My soul breathed after God, in spiritual and longing desires of conformity to Him; was brought to rest itself and all on His rich grace, and felt strength and encouragement t» do or suffer anything that divine providence should allot me. Rode about twenty miles from Stratfield to Newton. [Within the space of the next nine days, he went a journey from Newton to Haddam, his native town ; and, after staying there some days, returned again into the western parts of Connecticut, and came to Southbury. In his account of the frames and exercises of his mind, during this space of time, are such things as these: frequent turns of dejection, a sense of an unfathomable abyss of desperate wickedness in his heart, attended with a conviction that he had...
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In this two-volume work, the writings of colonial American missionary David Brainerd help detail his life story and work amongst the American Indians. Volume 1 includes Brainerd's diary and relates the sadly short life of one who would come to be known as an American religious hero.
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