'Forewarned is Forearmed', Or, The Story of Frank Harper

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Pagina 84 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Pagina 66 - This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that JESUS CHRIST came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Pagina 84 - Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father's house in peace ; then shall the Lord be my God : and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house : and of all that thou shalt give me, I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Pagina 88 - A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Pagina 67 - O sir, you are the friend of the Lord Jesus, whom I heard speak so well of Him. Joseph is the chief of sinners ; but it is a
Pagina 64 - Observe again, this is not the foundation. It is not this by which you are justified. This is not the righteousness, this is no part of the righteousness, by which you are reconciled unto God. You grieve for your *ins. You are deeply humble. Your heart is broken. Well ; but all this is nothing to your justification.
Pagina 67 - His neighbours who came to see him wondered, on hearing him always dwell on this, and only this. Some of the religious sort addressed him in the following manner: 'But what say you of your own heart, Joseph ? Is there no token of good about it ? No saving change there ? Have you closed with Christ, by acting faith upon Him?' Ah no,' says he, ' Joseph can act nothing — Joseph has nothing to say for himself but that he is the chief of sinners ; yet, seeing that it is a
Pagina 16 - ... very often imposes on himself: that hypocrisy which conceals his own heart from him, and makes him believe he is more virtuous than he really is, and either not attend to his vices, or mistake even his vices for virtues. It is this fatal hypocrisy, and self-deceit, which is taken notice of in those words. ' Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
Pagina 66 - God hath chosen the weak things of this world to confound the things which are mighty...
Pagina 64 - Understand this well. To think you must be more contrite, more humble, more grieved, more sensible of the weight of sin, before you can be justified ; is, to lay your contrition, your grief, your humiliation for the foundation of your being justified: at least for a part of the foundation.

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