I kept myself also free of the sins of idolatry and misbelief, both
of a deadly nature; and, upon the whole, I think I had not then
broken, that is, absolutely broken, above four out of the ten
commandments; but, for all that, I had more sense than to regard
either my good works, or my evil deeds, as in the smallest degree
influencing the eternal decrees of God concerning me, either with
regard to my acceptance or reprobation. I depended entirely on
the bounty of free grace, holding all the righteousness of man as
filthy rags, and believing in the momentous and magnificent truth
that, the more heavily loaden with transgressions, the more
welcome was the believer at the throne of grace. And I have
reason to believe that it was this dependence and this belief that at
last ensured my acceptance there.
I come now to the most important period of my existence--the
period that has modelled my character, and influenced every
action of my life--without which, this detail of my actions would
have been as a tale that hath been told--a monotonous farrago--an
uninteresting harangue--in short, a thing of nothing. Whereas, lo!
it must now be a relation of great and terrible actions, done in the
might, and by the commission of heaven.
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