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The Apostate's Progress From the Kingdom of Christ to the Dominions of Satan [ed. by T. Ewen].
The Apostate's Progress From the Kingdom of Christ to the Dominions of Satan - ed. by T. Ewen Author:Jesus Christ General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1825 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 book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Here they parted, and Love-life went on his way saying, Thou, King of Saints, who for me died, Be thou my helper and my guide! From carnal reasoning, keep me, Lord, And teach me by tby perfect word. Are Love-the-world and Fleshly-mind Against tby laws now both combin'd i Without tby grace, I'd gone astray From tby bless'd path, as far as they. Give me my weakness more to see, That I may trust alone to tuee. Then I shall never be afraid, Whatever foes my soul invade; But boldly run the happy road Which leads to thee, my Lord and God. THE APOSTATE'S PROGRESS. PART IV. l OW, I saw in my dream, that as Allapsus and his companions were travelling along and talking in a jeering and contemptuous manner of what Love-life had said, they saw at a little distance before them a man standing in a large field, and but a few yards out of the road. As soon as they came within sound of his voice, he called out to them, " Here, come this way, ye travellers, and I will shew you some things which may be of service to you." They walked towards the man, whose name was Explanator, and he opened the gate and let them into the field. JNow, said he, look round this place and tell me what you see. So they looked about them, and Allapsus said, I see yonder at some distance three men, one of them has gotten five bags in his hands, another of them has two bags, and the other only one. Explanator. Well, and what more do you see ? Allapsus. Why, the man who has five bags and the other with two, seem both of them busilyemployed in taking out of them something like gold, and giving it to some other pers...« less