This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1813 Excerpt: ... THE CHRISTIAN JOURNAL or A MAR VESTJBAY. W HAT noise hath awakened me? It is that " of the reapers rising to their work in the field." Are they preparing to labour for the meat that perisheth? and not I to labour for that which endureth to everlasting life?--Shall the summer pass, and the harvest end, while I am not saved? " A little ago, " I was half awake; but relapsed into my slumber. " Perhaps, this morning-drowsiness will make my " journey too late, and occasion my lying out to" night." Alas what if my accursed sloth, my stifling of conviction, and spending many years in a total unconcern for my soul, prove her everlasting ruin? what profit is it, if I gain the whole world and lose my own soul?--Alas if Christ be mine, he is no more than my last shift, when God obliged me to see that there was no escaping of hell without him. With what pungent grief, and confounding shame, do I remember, how often, in childhood and youth, I neglected prayer, and reading of God's word; and with what unconcern I performed religious duties, when my parents pushed and directed me to them --" Now I have got up, and put on my clothes." But whether I be risen with Christ from a state of sin and misery; whether I be clothed with his righteousness, or his curse, I know not. " My mirror, (6.) A a " shows a wrinkled brow, a fading countenance." Death is at my door; but whether it carry me to heaven or hell, I know not. O dreadful back-lock near twenty years I am sure I lived without Christ: .--twice twenty years I have lived in awful uncer- tainty, whether he be mine or not. " The children are up; put all that can lisp out " language to prayer." Lord, forbid that I should be of those unchristian parents who regard more the food and raiment, than the prayers, the instructio...