What Is To Become Of The Churches Or A Laymans Response To A Ministers Inquiries

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781527671614
Total Pages : 118 pages
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Download or read book What Is to Become of the Churches? written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from What Is to Become of the Churches?: Or, a Layman's Response, to a Minister's Inquires Raised, and common entreaties made. Souls have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb but the fountain opened, has not so often been found in the sanctuary, as out of it: less frequently among the leaders of the hosts of the Lord, than among those who follow. The Church has been used; but more to gather up, than to sow and reap: less to win souls to Christ, than to shelter those already won; and the humbling fact stands recorded in numerous localities, that when the work began, and search was made for the sons of Levi, when found, they had not separated themselves, and were not in a suitable condition to lead those Whose prayers were being answered, and who were on their way to Jerusalem; or to give a certain sound to their trumpets, in calling sinners to repentance: and a spectacle, strange, as it was unnatural, has been witnessed, of souls athirst for salvation, passing the Church and her officers, to beseech an interest in the prayers of individual Christians, or the union bands of praying disciples: and when the Spirit con vinced of sin, men instinctively, as well as by the Spirit's teaching, fled to those who had the power of godliness, rather than the form and knowledge of it; and clung to those in whom the image of Jesus most clearly appeared, wherever they were found; regarding whence they came, less important, than whither they were gomg. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.