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The unerring guide; or, Youth directed in the journey of life
The unerring guide or Youth directed in the journey of life Author:John Smith Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 44 PART II. GOD IS ALONE QUALIFIED TO BE TOUE GUIDE. He knows every step and danger of the way. The path. of righteousness God has himself always undevi... more »atingly trod. In the highway of holiness he has walked from all eternity. At no time has he swerved in the least to the right or to the left. The sun in the natural heavens may have dark spots on his disk; but the sun in the moral heavens has not. " God is light, and in him is no darkness at all." " The Lord is righteous in all his ways and holy in all his works." !Kor proofs of this you might refer to the revelations he has given you of his character. By the hye, there are no other sources from whence a true knowledge of him can he derived. Like his creatures, he is only to be known by his doings. Look, then, at your own structure and you will see it has been fashioned by holy hands, from its decaying under the rule of vice and flourishing under the sway of virtue. Examine the laws he has imposed on us, and you will be convinced they have been made by a holy head,from their sanctifying our nature proportionately as they are obeyed. Study the Gospel, with which he has hlesaed sinners, and you will be satisfied that it must have sprung out of a holy as well as a loving heart, from its tendency to make the vilest pure; yea, his hatred of iniquity and attachment to righteousness may be seen written on Calvary's Cross in letters of the life- blood of Jesus his beloved son. Meditate on the punishments which overtake the unjust and the rewards that follow the upright, and you will perceive his to be holy feet, from their pursuing after the wicked with evil and the righteous with good. In short, the book of creation, the roll of providence, the records of inspiration, and the volume of grace abound with the clearest evidences of ...« less