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. 1856. Excerpt: ... PASSAGE FEOM HOLT SCBIPTUBE ILLUSTBATING MISPLACED SCBUPULOSITY. "On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop, to pray, about the sixth hour; and he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready he fell into a trance, and saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet, knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth; wherein were all manner of four-footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. "And there came a voice to him, saying, Eise, Peter; kill, and eat. "But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean. "And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. "This was done thrice; and the vessel was received up again into heaven." PASSAGE FBOM HOLT SCBIPTUBE DISSUADING FBOM IT. "Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God." BULES FOE A SCBUPULOUS MAN. "1. The ease of the scrupulous man is full of variety, or uncertainty; so that it is as easy to govern chance, and to give rules to contingency, as to him. In all other cases there is a measure, and a limit, and therefore a remedy can be proportioned to it; but in this fear is the disease, and that alone is infinite; and as it commences oftentimes without cause, so it proceeds without limit. "2. He that is vexed with scruples must fly to God by prayer and fasting, that this lunacy and spirit of illusion, which sometimes throws him into the fire, and sometimes into the water, may be ejected; and the Spirit of God and the spirit of wisdom may come in substitution, according to the promise so often recorded in the holy...