Charis, Or, Reflections Chiefly Upon the Office of the Holy Spirit in the Salvation of Men (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.1805 Excerpt: ... 33. One great, if not first, effect of grace in the soul, is Faith. By faith, however, is to be understood, not that flimsy, superficial, unafFccting, notion, or assent to things revealed, or concerning God himself, which springs from sense, or rational evidence only set before the mind; but that holy principle of spiritual life, which is attended with the deepest convictions of sin and human depravity, of deserved ruin and utter inability to obtain relief from all created help; which brings the sinner to receive and rest upon the word of God implicitly and only; which prostrates the spirit of a man into contrition and humiliation, i ' i: -- Vita nostra (li. e. spiiitualis) h fide sumil initium, quiajmtus exJide vivit, quae per Spiritual Sanctum datur. Totum Deo adimitur, si et initium et consitmmatio fidei nostras haruani arbi-trii viribus applieatur. Fulg. apud Cons. Pair. p. 153. irtto the very dust (as it were) of selfabhorrence and renunciation; which leads him, in this lowly frame, to the foot of the cross, as a cursed and egregious sinner, crying for mercy and forgiveness through the blood of Him, Avho hung upon it; which, when the Pious is the following apostrophe to Christ, composed by the devout Bernard) which an excellent German Minister, Luc/is Pollio, desired to have repeated to him at his death, which occurred in 1583: Ne, quaso, tnorcjudick, Quid egerim, quid dixerim, . Quid cogitdrim, ponder a: Peccata sed mea omnia Tuo cruore deleas. The sense of which may be thus translated: Lord, as a judge upon thy seat, O let me not thy presence meet; Nor in strict balance e'er be weigh'd What I have thought, or done, or said: But blot out ev'ry stain of guilt 15y blood divine for sinners spilt F 3 soul soul is comforted and strengthened by the pr...