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Memoirs of the Life and Religious Experience of Ray Potter; Minister of the Gospel, Pawtucket
Memoirs of the Life and Religious Experience of Ray Potter Minister of the Gospel Pawtucket Author:Ray Potter General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1829 Original Publisher: H.H. Brown Subjects: Grace (Theology) Religion / Christian Theology / Soteriology Social Science / Freemasonry 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 b... more »uy 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 books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER XL Relation of External Circumstances, continued from chapter 8th. Exercises and state of mind farther described, Sfc. After being deprived of the meetinghouse to preach in, as I have given the relation in the 8th chapter, I felt Che need of much grace to support me, and also wisdom to direct how to act and what course to take in such trying circumstances. There were opportunities for me in abundance to preach in other place with an apparent prospect (according to human calculations) of prosperous temporal circumstances, but I could not find liberty in my mind to leave a church who had stood by me through the whole scene of mental sufferings and outward calamities, which I had been wading through with a constancy which was truly admirable. They were true to me through evil report as well as good report, apparently deaf to the bribery of riches and voice of calumny and reproach ; and therefore to leave them when they manifested great anxiety for me to remain, was more than any heart could endure. It was worse than death ! But how to remain was a question which faith in God alone could answer. There seemed to be every possible means used by some to hedge up my way, and to reduce me to the necessity of leaving. Those who had contributed to my support were persuaded to desist. I was told, in one instance, that as one of my friends was coming to visit me at the time that 1 was so out of health as to be unable to attend to my ministerial duties, an attempt was made to...« less