The Voice of Faith in the Valley of Achor: Vol. 1 [of 2]: being a series of letters to several friends on religious subjectsChurch, J. (John)
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The Voice of Faith in the Valley of Achor: Vol. 1 [of 2]: being a series of letters to several friends on religious subjects
Church, J. (John)
Christian life; Church, J. (John), approximately 1780-approximately 1825 -- Correspondence; Clergy -- England -- Correspondence
Thus, in a very simple manner, have I shewed the reality of Bible love.
But I want to live such a life of faith on Jesus, as Paul did, when he
said, The life I live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of
God, as Jesus did, as man, on his divine Father. So we should live on
Jesus, as God-Man Mediator, on his eternal unchanging love; his covenant
engagements; his meritorious work of obedience; his putting away sin, by
his sufferings and death; his intercession at the Father’s right hand,
and his glorious office, as an advocate for us, ever pleading his blood,
with which God is well pleased. On him may we live, to him may we go,
_and him in every thing employ_. We are sinners, and need his grace,
guilty, and need his blood, condemned, and need his righteousness, weak,
and need his arm, miserable, and need his mercy, rebellious, and need his
long suffering. Thus we are poor and needy, and every promise in the
Bible made to such, is your’s. O that we could so resist Satan, when he
comes to dispute us out of these things, that we might take courage and
read them all as our own. Then we shall be rich indeed, for God is
faithful to his Son, in whom they are made; and to his people, to whom
they are revealed.
Your’s, truly,
_Ruhamah_.
LETTER XXIV.
_Valley of Achor_, _March_ 1st, 1819.
Miss MILLER,
MY DEAR FRIEND,
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