Re: little by little Pat will taste the duration, and if Joseph enough asks it too, the medium will regulate at last the federal festival
- From: invite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Z. E. Porch, R.N.)
- Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:19:51 GMT
Spirit of God, to revive the lively
actings of grace, the light breaks through the cloud, and doubting and
darkness soon vanish away.
Persons are often revived out of their dead and dark frames by religious
conversation: while they are talking of divine things, or ever they are
aware, their souls are carried away into holy exercises with abundant
pleasure. And oftentimes, while relating their past experiences to their
Christian brethren, they have a sense of them revived, and the same
experiences are in a degree again renewed. Sometimes, while persons are
exercised in mind with several objections against the goodness of their
state, they have Scriptures one after another coming to their minds, to
answer their scruples, and unravel their difficulties, exceedingly
apposite and proper to their circumstances. By these means, their
darkness is scattered; and often, before the bestowment of any new
remarkable comfort, especially after longcontinued deadness and ill
frames, there are renewed humblings, in a great sense of their own
exceeding vileness and unworthiness, as before their first comforts were
bestowed.
Many in the country have entertained a mean thought of this great work,
from what they have heard of impressions made on persons' imaginations.
But there have been exceeding great misrepresentations, and innumerable
false reports, concerning that matter. It is not, that I know of, the
profession or opinion of any one person in the town, that any weight is
to be laid on any thing seen with the bodily eyes. I know the contrary
to be a received and established principle amongst us. I cannot say that
there have been no instances of persons who have been ready to give too
much heed to vain and useless imaginations; but they have been easily
corrected, and I conclude it will not be wondered at, that a
congregation should need a guide in such cases, to assist them in
distinguishing wheat from chaff. But such impressions on the
imaginations as have been more
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