The Dying Pillow Made Easy For A Death Bed A Post Humous Work

Author : Robert Hawker
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781548183073
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Dying Pillow Made Easy for a Death-Bed written by Robert Hawker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-17 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the RECOMMENDATORY PREFACE. It having fallen to my lot, in the Providence of God, to become the honoured instrument of introducing to the Christian world, the present and only posthumous work of the late Dr. Hawker, written at the close of his life, I gladly embrace the opportunity of bearing, although a humble, yet decided testimony (while its real and great intrinsic worth is its own and best recommendation) to the inestimable treasure it contains. To be in the least degree instrumental in bringing before the Church of Christ such a treatise as the following, is, in my estimation, no common honour-seeing, that in it is stored a rich vein of Scripture matter, doctrinal and practical-because also there is manifest much of the sacred anointing of the Holy Ghost in the gift and diffusion of that light, accompanied by that deep insight into Divine Truth, with which this distinguished servant of the Lord was favoured-strikingly evident in the spiritual, judicious, and instructive manner in which he has been enabled, under Divine teaching, to discuss the deeply important subject therein set forth; which is so especially necessary in the present "dark and cloudy day," when the glory and simplicity of the "Everlasting Gospel" is so greatly obscured; yea, when, in many instances, "the foundations" are attempted to be destroyed. The following treatise was sent by the late venerated Author at various times to a friend, who was then Editor of a religious periodical, for monthly insertion. It was considered, however, better to reserve the publication until the whole was completed, and publish it in a consolidated form. The Author was permitted by a gracious God to complete his part; but his Friend was removed from this earthly scene before his portion of the work was accomplished; and through a course of events, to which it is not necessary to allude, the manuscript was purchased from the family of the deceased, and upon me devolves the pleasing duty of introducing it to God's redeemed ones, convinced that, under the Lord's blessing, the publication cannot fail to minister both to His glory, and to His people's happiness. The design and end of the Author were to display the riches of God's grace, in opening the glorious mystery of salvation in the communication of that Heavenly joy and Everlasting triumph of the believer, in ascribing to God alone all the glory. Indeed, his chief drift throughout this precious work, is to encourage the humble disciple of the Lord Jesus to lift up his head, knowing that his "redemption draweth nigh;" when he shall put off, not only the remains of sin, but every temptation to it, and "return and come to Zion with songs and Everlasting joy upon his head." The anticipation of the "glory that shall be revealed," will cause him in the house of his pilgrimage to rejoice in his covenant-keeping God, and to eat "his meat with gladness and singleness of heart...".