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Memoirs of the Life, Ministry, and Character of the Rev. William Jones, With Sketches of His Sermons, by the Rev. R. Rymer
Memoirs of the Life Ministry and Character of the Rev William Jones With Sketches of His Sermons by the Rev R Rymer Author:William Jones General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1842 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 buy 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 book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. CONVERSION TO GOD. Importance and nature of conversion -- Means and manner of its accomplishment -- Mr. Jones's conversion remarkable -- Circumstances which preceded it -- Hears Methodist preachers -- Religious awakenings -- Birth of a second child -- Convictions of sin deepened -- Reads the Christian experience of Christopher Hopper -- Attends preaching and prayer-meetings -- Begins to meet in class, after many scruples -- Opposition of Mrs. Jones -- Motives for despondency and reasons for hope, a long time, equally balanced -- Mrs. Jones joins the society -- Unnecessary scrupulousness of Mr. Jones -- Removal to Liverpool -- Hears Mr. Hobrow preach -- Extraordinary manifestation of Christ -- Goes on his way rejoicing. The conversion of "the sinner from the error of his way/' is the most important event of his life; it enters into the experience of every Christian man; and it ought, in all religious biography, to be marked with special and peculiar emphasis. The birth, the life, and the death of Christian believers are fraught with the highest interest; but still they arc of small moment when compared with that great change, by which they are turned " from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God." But what heart can conceive, or what tongue can express, the magnitude and importance of this work of grace ? It is " the birth-day of a new existence, the commencement of a new life, the precursor of immortality, theembryo of endless bliss, the introduction to the element of perfect peace and rest, and the vestibule of heaven." Here the first principles of the heavenly sciences...« less