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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: PREFACE. Reader: The great business of man's life is, to answer the end for which he lives; and that is, to glorify God, and save his own soul: this is the decree of heaven as old as the world. But so it is, that man mindeth nothing less .than what he should most mind; and despiseth to inquire into his own being, its original, duty and end; choosing rather to dedicate his days (the steps he should make to blessedness) to gratify the pride, avarice, and luxury of his heart; as if he had been born for himself, or rather given himself being, and so not subject to the reckoning and judgment of a superior power. To this wild and lamentable pass hath poor man brought himself, by his disobedience to the law of God in his heart, by doing that which he knows he should not do, and leaving undone what he knows he should do. And as long as this disease continueth upon man, he will make his God his enemy, and himself incapable of the love and salvation that he hath manifested by his son, Jesus Christ, to the world. If, Reader, thou art such an one, my counsel to thee is, to retire into thyself, and take a view of the condition of thy soul: for Christ hath given thee light with which to do it: search carefully and thoroughly; thylife is upon it; thy soul is at stake. It is but once to be done; if thou abusest thyself in it, the loss is irreparable; the world is not price enough to ransom thee: wilt thou then for such a world be-late thyself, over-stay the time of thy salvation, and lose thy soul ? Thou hast to do (I grant thee) with great patience; but that also must have an end: therefore provoke not that God that made thee, to reject thee. Dost thou know what it is ? It is Tophet, it is hell, the eternal anguish of the damned. 0h Reader, as one knowing the terrors of the Lord, I p...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217242844 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217242847 |
| Weight | 0.90 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.62 In |
| List Price | $20.59 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 274 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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