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Admonitions From the Depths of the Earth; Or the Fall of Ray Potter; in Twenty Four Letters
Admonitions From the Depths of the Earth Or the Fall of Ray Potter in Twenty Four Letters Author:Ray Potter General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1838 Original Publisher: R. Sherman, Printer Subjects: History / United States / General History / Americas 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... more » this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LETTER VI. Pawtucket, Sept. 27xH, IS37. My dear Brother : -- The contents of my last, were painful for tne to relate, as they were no doubt, distressing to you to contemplate, and the recital ofthem in the hearing of those whom they implicate, would, no doubt be urged by them as irrefragable proof, that I am entirely destitute of humility in view of my own sin. Be it so; then assuredly these persons ought to be consistent and reject all the Psalms of David written after his fall which in any way reprove olhtrs, for their sins. Be it so, that the recital of them proves me destitute of humility -- and that I have now no right as some ofthem have asserted to use an argument, (!!) yet this will never disprove, that these facts themselves', are an incontrovertible argument, that they have gone counter to the plain command of God in their treatment of me. If not what is meant by that expression of the apostle Paul -- " Brethren if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of MEEK NESS; CONSIDERING THYSELF, LEST THOU ALSO BE TEMPTED." If not, what mean the many pointed declarations of the Savior of the same import -- and especially of that one where, as if to guard against all the excuses which an unforgiving spirit would be likely to resort to in order to get clear of this duty, the great Redeemer connects the obligation of forgiveness with the offenders own testimony -- if he SAYS he repent thou shall forgive him -- and to forgive him too as God for Christ...« less