the believers daily remembrancer

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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: Blesud are the pure in heart: for they shall tee God. Matt, v. 18. It is faith that purifies the heart; it brings home the atonement, and we enjoy pardon, peace, and reconciliation ; it purges the conscience from dead works, and delivers us from all condemnation. It receives the truth of God, and Jesus through the truth : and we receive power to become the sons of God. We realize our relationship to God, read the gracious promises God has made, and anticipate the glorious kingdom He has prepared; hope rules in the heart, and every one that has this hope in Him purifies himself, even as Christ is pure. His conscience is made tender, his intentions are honest, and his heart is sound in God's statutes. He groans under a body of sin and death, proclaims eternal war with the flesh, and loathes himself on account of filthiness in the spirit. He would give a world to be free from sin, for holiness is the element of his soul. He is blessed. He shall see God, and enjoy Him as his Father, Portion,-and everlasting all. He shall be with his God ; and be like Him, in purity, happiness, and glory. Jesus, the crowning grace impart; Bless me with purity of heart, That now beholding Thee, I soon may view Thy open face, On all thy glorious beauties gaze, And God forever see I Whom hming not seen ye love. 1 Pet. i. 8. We have never seen the glorified body of Jesus, but we have believed what His word declares of Him, and believing we love Him. As the only- begotten Son of God, who was exalted, dignified, and glorified from everlasting; as the voluntary Saviour of poor lost sinners, who became incarnate, suffered, bled and died for them. We love His adorable person—His countenance is majesty—His heart is love—His hand is omnipotence—His eye is bountifulness—His bowels are com... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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