Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of God in the Soul of Man, or the Nature and Excellency of the Christian Religion But, after all this, into what a torrent of grief and lamentation mull we break out, when we coniider the age we live inl for few do. Either believe or reflect on thofe great'things and, as if there were a general confpiracy againfl God and Religion, how does the greater part among us break locre from all the ties and bonds of that 1oke that 13 light and cafy, and enllave themfelves to many bale and huttful lulis and paflioris? And are not fatisfied with being as bad as they can be, but delire that all the world may elleem them fuch, and glory in their (hame; and enhance their guilt, by turning factors for hell, lindying to corrupt all about them? This fad profpeei mull needs deeply affect all that either truly love God, or have a tender compaflion for the fouls of men and will certainly let them to their fecret mournings and wrelllings with God, to avert the! Heavy judgments that leem to hang over our heads, - and that he may, of his great mercy, turn the hearts of the froward and difobe client to the mfdom oi' the juli. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.