The gospel fountain or, The anxious youth made happy

James Wood

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• Youth
• Theology
• 19th century

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 10
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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?JK PUBLIC i: T^T 28409B Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by JAMES DUNLAP, Treas., in the Clerk's OflBice of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. STEREOTTPED BT JESPER HARDING & SON, INQUIRER BUILDING, SOUTH THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA. PREFACE. to furnishThe following attempt of the author familiar instructions to the young,on the Doctrines of a valuedof Grace, was undertaken at the request friend. The mode of illustration by anecdotes was also him. The task has been asuggested by gas-light, andpleasing one, though performed by occupying many successive evenings, after the close of official which required his attentionduties during the day. His aim has been to state, prove, and illustrate, form, some of thein a brief, plain, and scriptural great doctrines of the gospel, as embodied more fully the Standards of the Presbyterian church.in " large," asIn order to avoid making the book too requested his friend, two topics have been forby the most part omitted, which would otherwise have been discussed. One is repentance^ which is connection with faith." />

\THE
GOSPEL FOUNTAIN,
OR THE
ANXIOUS YOUTH MADE HAPPY.
BY JAMES WOOD. D. D.
i
" In that day there shall be a fountain opened."
" Therefore with joy shall ye draw water of theout wells
of salvation."
PHILADELPHIA :
PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION,
No. 821 CHESTNUT STREET.
[\%'^THE NEW Y(>?JK
PUBLIC i: T^T
28409B
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by
JAMES DUNLAP, Treas.,
in the Clerk's OflBice of the District Court for the Eastern District
of Pennsylvania.
STEREOTTPED BT
JESPER HARDING & SON,
INQUIRER BUILDING, SOUTH THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA.PREFACE.
to furnishThe following attempt of the author
familiar instructions to the young,on the Doctrines
of a valuedof Grace, was undertaken at the request
friend. The mode of illustration by anecdotes was
also him. The task has been asuggested by
gas-light, andpleasing one, though performed by
occupying many successive evenings, after the
close of official which required his attentionduties
during the day.
His aim has been to state, prove, and illustrate,
form, some of thein a brief, plain, and scriptural
great doctrines of the gospel, as embodied more
fully the Standards of the Presbyterian church.in
" large," asIn order to avoid making the book too
requested his friend, two topics have been forby
the most part omitted, which would otherwise
have been discussed. One is repentance^ which is
connection with faith.inculcated in the gospel, in
The other is adoptioii, which is one of the benefits
and is especially important inof efi"ectual calling,
its being guaranty of the saints' perseverance.a
(3^4 PREFACE.
But as these two doctrines are not, as to their
nature, matters of controversy between Calvinists
and Arminians, merelythey are explained inci-
dentally and in few words, without appropriating
to their discussion separate conversations.
The anecdotes have been selected from persons
of all countries, complexions, and conditions in
life; in order to show that depraved human nature
and the effects of divine grace, are substantially
alike the human family highin whole —the and
low, the learned and ignorant, the refined and un-
cultivated.
The author's design in quoting so much sacred
poetry has been to make it apparent that the
favourite songs of praise employed by millions of
God's people, contain the substance of those doc-
trines usually styled by Calvinists, the doctrines
of grace; and hence that those doctrines are in
harmony with the devotional feelings of the re-
newed heart.
The work is respectfully dedicated to the
Youth of the Presbyterian Church;
with the author's earnest prayer for their conver-
sion to Christ, and their pious and efficient co-
operation in doing good.