The Select Works of the REV. John Newton; ... to Which Are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life & C (Paperback)

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. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ...but God has restored you back to the world nIpun. Did you meet with, or have you brought back, nothing new? Did nothing occur to stop or turn your usunl train of thought? Were your apprehensions of invisible things exactly the same in the height of your disorder, when you were cut otf from the world and all its engagements, as when you were in perfect health, and in the highest enjoyment of your own inclinations? If you answer me, "Yes, all things are just the same as formerly, the difference between sickness and health only excepted;" I am at a loss how to reply. I can only sigh and wonder: sigh, that it should be thus with any, that it should he thus with you, whom I dearly love; and wonder, since this unhappy case, strange as it seems in one view, is yet so frequent, why it was not always thus with myself; for long and often it was just so. Many a time, when sickness had brought me, as we say, to death's door, I was as easy and insensible as the sailor, who, in the height of a storm, should presume to sleep upon the top of the roast, quite regardless, that the next tossing wave might plunge him into the raging ocean, beyond all possihility of relief. But at length a day came, which, though the most terrible day I ever saw, I can now look back upon with thankfulness and pleasure; I say, the timts came, when, in such a helpless extremity, and under the expectation of immediate death, it pleased God to command the vail from my eyes, and I saw things in some measure as they really were. Imagine with yourself, a person trembling upon the point of a dreadful precipice, a powerful and inexorable enemy eager to push him down, and an assemblage of all that is horrible waiting at the bottom for his fall; even this will give you but a...