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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: and go to hell P' At this I was put to an exceeding maze: wherefore, leaving my cat upon the ground, I looked up to heaven, and was as if I had, with the eyes of my understanding, seen the Lord Jesus looking down upon me, as being very hotly displeased with me, and as if he did severely threaten me with some grievous punishment. The immediate consequence of this check was a fit of desperation; in which, hastily concluding that, if he must be lost, it might as well be for many sins as for few, he resumed his suspended play: and we have his solemn assurance, that, for some time afterwards, his chief study was, how soonest to fill himself with the delicacies of sin, lest, as he greatly feared, he should die before he had his desire. One day, however, as he was cursing and THE OREEN-HOL'SE, EL.STOTv. swearing, and playing the madman, after his wonted manner, he was reprimanded by a woman, who, though herself a very loose and ungodly wretch, protested that it made her tremble to hear his Formerly, no doubt, the scene of Bunyon's revels; but now, as the engraving intimates, used as a school. imprecations, and that he was enough to spoil ail the youth in the place. The rebuke took effect. Silent and ashamed, he wished himself a child again, to be taught by his father how to speak without oaths, and curses. The needed reformation was brought about by other means. From this time, the tyrannous habit lost its power; and, though he continued to desecrate the Lord's day, he ceased from taking his name in vain. Ultimately, he saw other things in a new light, and was so conscience- stricken while standing in the belfry of the church, that he relinquished even his favourite exercise of assisting the ringers. Falling into the society of a professor of religion, he was induced to...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217128247 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217128246 |
| Weight | 0.81 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 246 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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