Evidence of an authentic god is that there are hundreds of them and NONE of
them have actually spoken to us or saved us from painful accidents or
diseases!
The only authentic god is those in peoples over active imaginations!
"SheBlewHimDidYouBlowHim" <killgod@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> in God as their whole and everlasting
> ****tion; and of their ardent and longing desire after God, to have
> communion with Him; and others, more of their abhorrence to themselves
> for their past sins, and earnest longings to live to God's glory for the
> time to come. But it seems evidently to be the same work, the same
> habitual change wrought in the heart; it all tends the same way, and to
> the same end; and it is plainly the same spirit that breathes and acts
> in various persons. There is an endless variety in the particular manner
> and cir***stances in which persons are wrought on; and an op****tunity of
> seeing so much will show that God is further from confining Himself to a
> particular method in His work on souls than some imagine. I believe it
> has occasioned some good people amongst us, who were before too ready to
> make their own experience a rule to others, to be less censorious and
> more extended in their charity; and this is an excellent advantage
> indeed. The work of God has been glorious in its variety; it has the
> more displayed the manifold and unsearchable wisdom of God, and wrought
> more charity among His people.
>
> There is a great difference among those who are converted, as to the
> degree of hope and satisfaction they have concerning their own state.
> Some have a high degree of satisfaction in this matter almost
> constantly; and yet it is rare that any enjoy so full an assurance of
> their interest in Christ that self-examination should seem needless to
> them; unless it be at particular seasons, while in the actual enjoyment
> of some great discovery God gives of His glory and rich grace in Christ,
> to the drawing forth of extraordinary acts of grace. But the greater
> part, as they sometimes fall into dead frames of spirit, are frequently
> exercised with scruples and fears concerning their condition.
>
> They generally have an awful apprehension of the dreadful nature of a
> false hope; and there has been observable in most
>
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