Essays on the Distinguishing Traits of Christian Character - Part One

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Essays on the Distinguishing Traits of Christian Character — Part One
Gardiner Spring

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This little work was first published in 1813. In the view of the Author, it was exceedingly doubtful whether the principal part of the edition would not lie upon the shelf of the Bookseller. But through the favour of a kind Providence, it has passed through several editions; and as he has reason to believe, been made in some instances, the power of God to salvation. This has emboldened him, amidst an unusual pressure of labour, to make some alterations and additions to the work, and commit it to the public in somewhat a different form. Imploring the Divine favour, that it may be “a sweet savour unto God in them that are saved,” he solicits for it the kind indulgence and serious attention of the reader.
New York, April 1829.

Contents
Essay 1. Visible Morality 1
Essay 2. Speculative Knowledge 6
Essay 3. Form of Religion 9
Essay 4. Eminent Gifts 11
Essay 5. Conviction of Sin 12
Essay 6. Confidence in good Estate 14
Essay 7. The Time of your Supposed Conversion 16
Essay 8. Love to God 18
Essay 9. Repentance for Sin 22
Essay 10. Faith in Christ 26
Essay 11. Evangelical Humility 29
Essay 12. Self-denial 31
Essay 1. Visible Morality

In what consists those fruits of the Spirit, which evince to ourselves and others, that we are born of God?
This inquiry is of the most practical kind, as it brings every man to sit in judgment on his character. “Know thyself,” is an injunction which comes to us under the combined sanction both of reason and …