The Works of William Huntington to the Close of the Year MDCCCVI. (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: THE CRY OP LITTLE FAITH HEARD AND ANSWERED, AND HIS INNOCENT CAUSE UNDERTAKEN AND PLEADED, A LETTER TO A FRIEND. AND BEGINNING TO SINK, HE CRIED, SAYING, LORD, SAVE Me! AND IMMEDIATELY JESUS STRETCHED FORTH HIS HAND, AND TAUGHT HIM, AND SAID UNTO HIM, O THOU OF LITTLE FAITH, WHEREFORE DIDST THOU DOUBT? MATT. XIV. 30, 31. TAKE HEID THAT YE DESPISE NOT ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES. MATT. XV11I. 10. PREFACE. Courteous Reader, I Had determined in my own mind to write a treatise to weak believers before the matter contained in this Letter was unexpectedly and hastily drawn from me. And as I have, since the first publication of this, published the History of Little Faith, from his conception to his grave; in which a great part of the matter of this Epistle is contained, though dressed up in another form; I did not intend ever to have printed this again. But the whole impression being sold off, and numerous applications having been made for it, I am constrained to reprint it; and, if my reader chooses to bind it up with the History of Little Faith, they will together make a good sized volume. That God may bless the reader, and that he may so read it as to profit thereby, is the prayer and desire of him, who is of Little Faith, W. H. A LETTER IN DEFENCE OP LITTLE FAITH. DEAR SIR, 1 Received your kind letter, and am glad, but somewhat surprised, at the rapid advances which you have made in so short a time. We are to " grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ;" which is what you do apace, it seems. I hope you do not make more haste than good speed. For my part, I was long stumbling upon the dark mountains, before I got to your stature in faith. God tried mine as fast as it grew; but you have grown up like t...