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. 1846 Excerpt: ...must "pray always;" constantly, frequently, at stated times, in occasional ejaculations, and more abundantly in the prospect, or in the hour of temptation; using all kinds "of prayer and supplication," in dependence on the Holy Spirit, and according to his teaching and influences; and "watching unto this very thing," guarding against all remissness, discouragement, weariness, interruptions, and unseasonable engagements; "with all perseverance;" seeing Satan would peculiarly tempt them to negligence on this important concern, that he might obtain further advantages against them. The Word of God is even "sharper than any twoedged sword," which would cut each way: for it can pierce the heart and conscience, like the irresistible lightning; forcing convictions and alarms upon the most haughty and obstinate; showing men their past and present sins, in all their odiousness, numberless multitude, and manifold aggravations; detecting the unsuspected pride, enmity, rebellion, ingratitude, and other evils of the heart; distinguishing men's characters with the clearest evidence, and exposing the base motives of their most specious actions. Thus, by exhibiting the glory of the Divine perfections, men's relations and obligations to the great Creator; the spirituality, extent, excellency, and sanction of the law; the evil and desert of sin, and the depravity of the human heart, in a variety of ways, and a multiplicity of experiments; it forces conviction of guilt and danger upon the sinner, and compels him, as it were, to condemn himself, and seek deliverance: nor can any kind of delusion or hypocrisy stand before its penetrating energy, when experimentally and fully preached, and applied to the hearts of men according to...