The Works of Samuel Stennett

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: 3. And lastly, How great, Christian, is your felicity ! 'You have believed religion to be a reality, and have found it to be so in your own experience. You have the witness in yourself, and you have the pleasure to see every other kind of testimony concurring with this of your own mind and conscience. Few, indeed, around you are duly affected with this great concern; yet few dare look you in the face and say it is all a deception. But though the whole world did think differently from you, if, nevertheless, you have the Bible, and the feelings of your own heart, on your side, what will it signify ? And though in the end you should be mistaken, yet you will have no cause to repent that you have given firm credit to such matters as have tended to make you a happier and better man, and a more cheerful and useful member of society. But the truth is great, and it will prevail. Religion is a reality, and built on such principles as cannot deceive. Rejoice then, O believer, amidst all the contempt that is cast upon you by a profane and wicked world. Rejoice in the truth. Place a firm confidence in Christ as your Saviour, and ' give all diligence to make your calling and election sure.' Be confirmed in the grounds of your faith, and pray to God that the fruits of it may so appear in your heart and life, as to put the truth of religion itself, and your own interest in it, beyond all dispute. And look forward with pleasure and triumph to that day, when all doubt and scepticism shall be for ever absorbed and lost, in the brightness and certainty of the. heavenly world. . DISCOURSE III. THE SAMENESS OF RELIGION. 1 Cor. xn. 13.?And have been all made to drink into one spirit. Jlt is a reflection highly pleasing to a serious mind, that religion, the nature and reality of which we...