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It has been known, we believe, that the timid and hesitating Christian has caught alarm from this volume, and been led, in the perusal of it, to pronounce upon himself a severer sentence than his short-comings required. It is every way likely, however, that the cases are few in which such mistakes have done any permanent injury; and to guard against them, it is only necessary to mark the difference between the infirmities, or imbecilities, which are incident to one Christian, and the altitudes of attainment which are arrived at by another. The allowances made for this diversity, are more frequently too great than too small. But the man whose piety is languishing, because he is remiss in fostering its growth, or suffers it to be broken in upon by frequent immersion in secular pursuits, will find, in the following pages, a most seasonable and powerful caveat. If he look at all with an eye of candour, in traversing the scene through which it leads him, he cannot fail to be struck with the contrast between what he is, and what he ought to be; and when this contrast stands out before him, as a ministration of reproof, let him make use of it, also, as a stimulant of exertion; for there is nothing more destructive of Christian piety, or more fertile in discomfort to the Christian himself, than a slow and imperceptible encroachment on its sacredness by the concerns of this world. "Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God."

Perth, May, 1824.

D. Y.

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CHAP. VI. My Exercises about the Being of God, and showing the way of my Relief from this Temptation,

CHAP. VII. An Account how I came to be satisfied that the Scriptures are the Word of God, and how Temptations, in reference to them, were repelled,

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CHAP. VIII. A short Account of the Issue of some other Temptations with which I had been exercised, and the Relief I obtained, with respect to them, from the Lord, 229

PART IV.

SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS ORDINATION TO THE HOLY MINIS-
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CHAP. I. Of his being licensed to preach the Gospel,

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CHAP. II. On his entering on the Ministry at Ceres,

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CHAP. III. Of his Management in the Work of the Ministry,

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CHAP. IV. His Judgment concerning several Cases, especially with respect to his own Exercise and Practice, CHAP. V. Of his Marriage and conduct in his Family,

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CHAP. VI. Of his entering on the Profession of Divinity, 292

PART V.

AN ACCOUNT OF SOME OF HIS LAST WORDS, ON HIS DEATH-
BED, SEPTEMBER, 1712,

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