Shaker Sermons; Scripto-Rational. Containing the Substance of Shaker Theology. Together with Replies and Criticisms Logically and Clearly Set Forth (Paperback)

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: GOD INDIVISIBLE. There are three things I know, and the fourth I strongly be. lieve. These are: First, I must convince you that you are in error, and building on a sandy foundation, instead of the rock of truth; and, secondly, must convince you that we are right and building on the true foundation; and, thirdly, must convince you that by entering the fold, adopting our life, and submitting to the law of Christ, as you can be made to understand it, you will thereby be rendered more happy in this life, and be assured of eternal life and heaven in the world to come. And additionally, I am strongly impressed with the belief, that, after having been fully convinced of the facts as we see them, few of you will forsake the world for Christ; for truly He hath said: " For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat; and straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." Matt. vii, 13, 14. " Strive, therefore, to enter in at the straight gate, for many will seek and shall not be able." When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut the door, and ye begin to stand without and to knock at the door, saying, "Lord, Lord, open unto us, He shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are." Luke xiii, 24, 5. Sorrowful as it is, I feel a strong degree of certitude that this will be the condition of the most of you unless you take warning, turn from the world, and strive ? yea, agonize ? to " enter in at the straight gate." That the nominal professors of Christianity are in error, both in faith and practice, and that none of their schemes of salvation will insure to them either happiness or heaven, here or hereafter, I do most conscientiously believe. They bein...