![]() ![]() ![]() I was particularly prone to lying, and I cannot but admire the mercy that has freely forgiven me all these juvenile sins. heartily, by reason of bodily chastisements received on these delinquencies being discovered. ![]() These words have proved prophetic, as different approaches to this most multifarious of novels have found their own reflections within it. I could not help running into new sins continually but then I was mercifully dealt with, for I was often made to repent of them most. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Approaches Penny Fielding ‘And to what I am now reduced, let the reflecting reader judge’,1 declares Robert Wringhim a few days before his suicide. On the whole, I remember that I got into great confusion relating to my sins and repentances, and knew neither where to begin nor how to proceed, and often had great fears that I was wholly without Christ, and that I would find God a consuming fire to me. Publisher: Independently Published Publication Date: April 28th, 2021 Pages: 266 Language: English Related Editions (all). Meantime, I went on sinning without measure but I was still more troubled about the multitude than the magnitude of my transgressions, and the small minute ones puzzled me more than those that were more heinous, as the latter had generally some good effects in the way of punishing wicked men, froward boys, and deceitful women and I rejoiced, even then in my early youth, at being used as a scourge in the hand of the Lord another Jehu, a Cyrus, or a Nebuchadnezzar. ![]()
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