Forty-One Letters on Religious Subjects; Originally Published Under the Signatures of Omicron and Vigil; And Fourteen Letters Addressed to the REV. MR (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: ... a state of trial, the love of the world is so powerful in your heart that you cannot resist the temptation of enriching yourself by unlawful means, you have great reason to fear you have not his Spirit, and are therefore none of his, I am, &c. LETTER XLI. ON THE MINISTRY OF ANGELS. DEAR SIR, The saints on earth, though exposed to many sufferings, and assaulted by many enemies, are as safe as the saints in glory. They have been enabled, in the day of God's power, to commit themselves to the caie of Jesus, the great shepherd, who is faithful to his trust, and able to save them to the uttermost. His eye is always upon them, his everlasting arms are underneath them, and no power, or policy, can separate them from his love. The apostle, in the name and behalf of the church militant, having taken a leisurely and distinct survey of all the difficulties and opposition they can possibly meet with, in life or in death, from the visible or invisible worlds, triumphs in an assurance that none of these things singly, nor all of them together, shall prevail; but that, on the contrary, believers shall be made conquerors, yea, more than conquerors, through him who has loved them. In the course of his enumeration of the real or supposed dangers to which the people of Christ are exposed, he particularly mentions angels, principalities, and powers, intimating to us a subject of great importance, though too seldom and too faintly attended to by as; I mean the part which the inhabitants of the unseen world take in our concerns. Angel is a general name; the terms, principalities and powers, and elsewhere, thrones and dominions, applied to them, we shall not, perhaps, clearly understand till we mingle with the world of spirits. These different names seem, ...