Backsliders Must Take Right Views of God
Your state of soul surprises me. I feel persuaded the hindrance must be in yourself. I verily believe God has no exceptions against you. He is as willing to bless you as the scores of immortal souls who are now …
Past Sins of Backsliders
Dryden’s sentiment, in the following lines, if applied to unpardoned sin, or when seized upon by a mind that is flying from the Saviour, as it is endeavoring to escape from remorse is not only bad theology, but highly dangerous …
Christ a Backslider’s Saviour
Unbelief is ever ingenious in the invention of instruments wherewith to torture the soul. You say, “It was suggested to me the other day, and it stung my soul to desperation, We find in Scripture many who were desperately sick, …
Misery of Backsliders
I cannot think or your sad case, dear backslider, without recurring to the following mournful lines; cadences, which, if I am not mistaken, will find an echoing response in the wild workings of your own sorrow-stricken heart:
“When will pass away …
The Soul Not Material
I cannot now find time to enter “minutely” into all your speculations — speculations they are, and ever must remain, so long as you have not a “Thus saith the Lord” attached to them. But, I would ask, is not …
Annihilation
Art thou in health, my friend? Bad health, or an improper course of life must have impelled you, surely, to espouse, — I shall not say such principles, for they are not worthy of such a title, -but the “probabilities” …
Infidel Defenses Demolished
Infidels of the present day are greatly at a loss for some original vigorous spirit, — one who could skim off old discolored froth, and dive deeper than his predecessors into the stagnant pool, in order to raise a new …
The Anxiety of Infidels
A visitor, some years ago, when commenting upon the concluding article of the infidel’s creed, “I believe in all unbelief,” remarked, that it might have been better expressed thus: “I believe in all absurdity, that I may justify my unbelief …
Infidel Objections Answered
In two respects, I perceive, the infidels in Europe resemble those in America: 1st. Rejecting everything. 2nd. Affirming nothing. You consider Christianity false, but you seem quite unable to give us anything better. Why, then, should you be angry with …
Infidels Not Sincere
My persuasion is deepened, as I become acquainted with infidels, that there are few of them honest in the sentiments they pretend to entertain. A wicked course of life necessitates most infidels to espouse and contend for such principles. The …