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as soon as he believes this, all the joy that he wished
to feel naturally springs up in his heart. His feelings
produced by his faith, not his faith by his feeling ...
This is the only scriptural ground upon which
the assurance of personal forgiveness can rest in
the consciousness that I have compiled with the
conditions upon which God promised forgiveness ...
The consciousness of a new heart - of the feelings and
sympathies of a regenerate soul - the witness of
the Spirit with my spirit that I am a child of
God, comes afterwards, and is confirmatory
evidence of our first faith in the declaration
of Scripture about forgiveness.

Henry Allon's Me-
moir of the Rev. James Sherman.

Dr Livingston the African
traveller says of his youth.

In reading, everything I could lay
my hands on was devoured except novels.

Scientific works and books of tra-
vels were my especial delight; though
my father, believing with many more of his
time who ought to have known better,
that the former were inimical to religi-
on, would have preferred to have seen
me poring over the "Cloud of Witnesses"
or "Boston's Fourfold State" ... Our differ-
ence of opinion reached the point of
open rebellion on my part, and his
last application of the rod was on my
refusal to peruse Wilberforce's
"Practical Christianity." This dis-