God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
The signs of a flesh-pleaser or sensualist are these:
1. When a man in his desire to please his appetite, does not do it with a view to a higher end, that is to say to the preparing himself for the service of God; but does it only for the delight itself.
2. When he looks more eagerly and industriously after the prosperity of his body than of his soul.
3. When he will not refrain from his pleasures, when God forbids them, or when they hurt his soul, or when the necessities of his soul call him away from them.
4. When the pleasures of his flesh exceed his delights in God, and His holy word and ways, and the expectations of endless pleasure. When he had rather be at a play, or feast, or other entertainment, or getting good bargains or profits in the world, than to live in the life of faith and love, which would be a holy and heavenly way of living.
5. When men set their minds to scheme and study to make provision for the pleasures of the flesh; and this is first and sweetest in their thoughts.
6. When they had rather talk, or hear, or read of fleshly pleasures, than of spiritual and heavenly delights.
7. When they love the company of merry sensualists, better than the communion of saints, in which they may be exercised in the praises of their Maker.
8. When they consider that the best place to live and work is where they have the pleasure of the flesh. They would rather be where they have things easy, and lack nothing for the body, rather than where they have far better help and provision for the soul, though the flesh be pinched for it.
9. When he will be more eager to spend money to please his flesh than to please God.
10. When he will believe or like no doctrine but “easy-believism,” and hate mortification as too strict “legalism.” By these, and similar signs, sensuality may easily be known; indeed, by the main bent of the life.
Richard Baxter
Dolores Scaia’s Cinnamon Nut Cake
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CATEGORY
CUISINE
TAG
YIELD
Eggs, Dairy, Grains
Mom’s best, Cyberealm, Cakes
8
Servings
INGREDIENTS
1/2
c
Butter
1
c
Sugar
2
Eggs
1
c
Sour cream
2
c
Flour, sifted
1
ts
Baking powder
1
ts
Baking soda
1
pn
Salt
1
ts
Vanilla
1/2
c
Sugar
1/2
c
Walnuts, chopped fine
1
ts
Cinnamon
1
c
Confectioners sugar
2
tb
Milk
1
ts
Almond extract
INSTRUCTIONS
TOPPING
ICING
1. Mix the softened butter, sugar, eggs, and sour cream together in a
large bowl. Set aside.
2. In a sifter, add the flour, baking powder, soda and salt, and sift
gradually into the butter mixture. Blend well. Add the vanilla.
3. Pour half the cake batter in a greased 13 x 9 x 2 pan. Sprinkle
with half of the topping mixture, and add the remaining cake mixture.
Sprinkle with the remaining topping mixture. If you wish, you may
swirl the topping mixture into the cake mixture.
4. Bake at 350F for 35 minutes or until the cake springs back.
TOPPING: To prepare, mix all ingredients together.
ICING: Mix all ingredients together in a bowl and set aside. While
the cake is still warm, pour on top of cake.
Source: Deloris Scaia, Alliance Ohio (my mom's best friend for 50
years)
Typed for you by: Linda Fields, Cyberealm BBS, Watertown, NY 1993
File ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/mmcyber3.zip
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