The Life of the Rev Thomas Scott, D D , Rector of Aston Sandford, Bucks

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: stroy; and proved, 1 am fully satisfied, as far as any thing proceeding from man was instrumental to it, the primary cause of my subsequent conversion!?With this circumstance, therefore, my narrative in the 'Force of Truth' commences. Here, in transcribing my father's manuscript, I find it impossible not to pause, for the purpose of avowing the impression which this simple, undisguised narrative makes upon my mind, and in which, I persuade myself, I shall have the sympathy of all those who duly appreciate what the writer afterwards became. The excellent Mr. Cecil, in his usual striking manner, remarks, The history of a man's own life is, to himself, the most interesting history in the world, next to that of the Scriptures. He adds, None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself. This is undoubtedly true: yet the history of the human mind, in perhaps every instance where we can fairly come at it, is and must be deeply interesting to all pious and thinking persons.?The reflections suggested, by the present narrative, at the period at which we have arrived, may be not at all uncommon; yet they are both affecting and important. What sad marks of depravity may be traced even in the earliest periods of life, by those who honestly observe themselves, and judge by the holy law of God!?How far off from himself does Almighty God often find even his most chosen instruments of good, when he first begins to form them for his service!?And by what remarkable, what apparently trivial and most unexpected means docs Le frequently work, to reclaim them from their wanderings! Who could have expected an ungodly, and even infidel man, to use such words in remonstrating with an undutiful apprentice? and much more who could ever have anticipated the effects that were to ...