Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 edition. Excerpt: ... and a pattern to all that inquire the way to happiness. Let us attend to his words, and a little more particularly consider their import. Yea, doubtless; I affirm it with the utmost confidence, and am determined to abide by it: that / count all things; my birth-privileges, and pharisaical zeal; my submission Jto ceremonial rites, and performance of moral duties; these, all these I esteem but loss. Nor do I only reject all my duties before conversion; but also whatever I now have, and all that I now perform, I count of no worth in the grand article of divine acceptance. These, though highly ornamental, useful, and ex eellent, when standing in their proper'places and referred to suitable ends; are little, are nothing, are loss itself, compared with the excellency of the knowt ledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. Yea, such is the love that I have for my Saviour, and such the dependence I place on his righteousness, that for his sake / have cheerfully suffered the loss of all things, which once I so highly valued. And I do with the greatest deliberation again declare, in the presence of Him who searches the heart; that I count them, vile as the offals which are thrown to the dogs, and loathsome as dung which is cast out of sight. Such is the worth of my own performances, and such my estimate of them, if set in competition with the work of Jesus, or presuming to stand in the place of his righteousness. Now therefore it is my chief desire and supreme concern that 1 may win Christ, who is able to supply every want, and to render me completely happy. That, when the Judge ascends the throne, at the last tremendous audit; when all nav jtions'. shall appear before Him, and when none but the perfectly righteous are able to stand, I may be found in Him the...
