Thankfulness, by the Author of Records of a Good Man's Life. by C.B. Tayler
by Charles Benjamin Tayler (9781150383892)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1852 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: The following day was the Lord's day; and Whitefield preached again on the morning and evening of that day. Among his hearers, humble and teachable as a little child, thirsting for the milk of the word, stood the young English clergyman. The truths he had heard had indeed sunk into his soul; and under God's " Great Ordinance of preaching," he who had before lightly taken upon himself the office of a preacher, was transformed in the spirit of his mind, and fitted by God's grace, to enter upon the work to which he had before given himself only by a formal and outward dedication. CHAPTER THE SECOND. " Glasgow, September 29, 1741. I Am led by the circumstances of the last few days, to think very sadly and very seriously of The Family Living. Alas it has well nigh proved a deadly snare to me. I was about to enter upon the charge of more than a thousand souls, with scarcely a thought of the awful responsibility of the office of a Christian Pastor. Competence -- ease -- an elegant retirement -- the companionship of my sweet Lucy -- my favourite books -- my pleasant Rectory -- the lovely scenery of Springhurst -- these were the subjects uppermost in my mind. A vague idea floated before me, that I should wish to be a good clergyman, but so vague was it, that I had never attached any definite form to it, or been at the pains to do so. I have thought almost as much of becoming a shepherd on the mountains of Wales, and feeding sheep in the valley of Nant-y-Rhaider, as of taking the oversight of the flock of Christ's sheep, and of ' feeding the church of God,' which he hath purchased with his own blood. -- And w...

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