The Berean Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 Excerpt: ...it. Suppose this desire to be awakened, and fixed upon God, though in souls that never heard either of the Law or the Gospel, and then the divine life, or operation of God enters into them, and the new birth in Christ is formed in those, that never heard of his name. And these are they ' that shall come from the East, and from the West, and sit down with j Abraham, and Isaac in the kingdom of God. I " Oh my God. just and Good, how great s thy love and mercy to mankind, that Heaven is thus every where open, and Christ thus the common Saviour to all hat turn the desire of their hearts to thee Oh sweet power of the bruiser of the serpent, born in every son of man, that stirs and works in every man, and gives every man a power and desire, to find his happiness in God O holv Jesus, heavenly light, that lighteth every man that cometh into the world, that rerieemeth every soul that foiloweth thy light, which is always within him O holy trinity, immense ocean of divine love, in which all mankind live, and move, and have their being None are separated from thee, none live out of thy luve, but all are embraced in the arms of thy mercy, all are partakers of thy divine life, the operation of thy holy Spirit, as soon as their heart is turned to thee Oh plain, and easy, and simple way of salvation, wanting no subtleties of art or science, no borrowed Learning, no refinements of reason, but all done by the single natural motion of every heart, that truly longs after God. For no sooner is the finite desire of the creature in motion towards God, but the infinite desire of God is united with it, cooperates with it. And in this united desire oi God, and the creature, is the salvation, and life of the soul brought forth. For the soul is shut out of God, and imprisoned...