Excerpt from The Evidence of Salvation: Or the Direct Witness of the Spirit Those that have been read during twenty years to little profit, or to positive harm, would fill many pages. The tendency of the times seems to be to substitute some other ground of as surance for that which alone can satisfy the heart. That souls through knowledge of the truth may be saved from presumption, credulity, despondency, unsatisfied longing, despair, and unbelief is the writer's aim and prayer. 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.