Excerpt from Love for Souls Did we believe with the utmost sincerity that a. Friend who lately died was now undergoing torture in a place called purgatory, the thought of his torture by literal fire would horrify us, and our pity for him would be intense, but it would not be the same in kind as the pity which God's true people feel for souls completely under sin's dominion. Our Saviour did not teach us that angels re joice whenever men, pressed down by earthly sorrows, are delivered from them, but that their joy is called forth when one is made holy; namely, when a sinner with a heart truly broken and penitent turns from sin unto God. This shows that the pity which angelic beings feel for our fallen race is pity for them considered as lost, considered as in bondage to sin, and doomed to suffer that death which is its wages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.