CASES OF CONSCIENCE, ANSWERED IN AN EVANGELICAL MANNER, AT THE CASUISTICAL LECTURE, IN LITTLE ST. HELEN'S, BISHOPGATE-STREET. BY S. PIKE ANĎ. S. HAYWARD. TO WHICH IS NOW ADDED, THE SPIRITUAL COMPANION; OR, THE PROFESSING CHRISTIAN, TRIED AT THE BAR OF GOD'S WORD: BEING Some Pious Thoughts offered in answer to Several AND SOME FREE THOUGHTS ON THE CHARACTER OF Mal. iii. 16-Then they that feared the Lord, spake often one to another, &c. New-York: PUBLISHED BY EVERT DUYCKINCE, NO. 110 PEARL-STREET. M'Farlane & Long, printers. LH THE HE following Answers were, amongst others, delivered in a weekly Lecture, during the last winter, with a view to remove the doubts of the timorous Christian, quicken him in his way to Zion, to guard against presumptuous hopes, and promote the life of religion in the soul. That these important ends might be answered, the auditory were desired to supply us with serious Cases of Conscience, arising from the difficulties they met with in the course of their experience, and to conceal their names, that so they might with the greater freedom propose their respective Cases, and that we, in our solution of them, might be kept from the least degree of fear or restraint. Through the repeated importunities of our friends, and from satisfactory evidences of usefulness, we have been prevailed upon to commit to public view a select number of these answers, though somewhat contracted. And we hope, that those, into whose hands they may come, will read them with Christian candour. And may the Spirit of God, without whose peculiar blessing all attempts will be ineffectual to answer any saving purposes, make these a powerful means of bringing them nearer to Christ, and of making them more lively and active in his service! If this happy end is but in the least answered, we shall rejoice, and give God all the glory, disregarding all the little contempt that may be cast upon us and our imperfect labours. Burke |