Andrew Bonar Quote
Jeremy Taylor recommends: If though meanest to enlarge they religion, do it rather by enlarging thine ordinary devotions than thy extraordinary. This advice describes very accurately the plan of spiritual life on which Mr. McCheyne acted. He did occasionally set apart seasons for special prayer and fasting, occupying the time so set apart exclusively in devotion. But the real secret of his soul's prosperity lay in the daily enlargement of his heart in fellowship with his God. And the river deepened as it flowed on to eternity; so that he at least reached the feature of a holy pastor which Paul pointed out to Timothy (4:15): His profiting did appear to all.: In
Andrew Bonar
Jeremy Taylor recommends: If though meanest to enlarge they religion, do it rather by enlarging thine ordinary devotions than thy extraordinary. This advice describes very accurately the plan of spiritual life on which Mr. McCheyne acted. He did occasionally set apart seasons for special prayer and fasting, occupying the time so set apart exclusively in devotion. But the real secret of his soul's prosperity lay in the daily enlargement of his heart in fellowship with his God. And the river deepened as it flowed on to eternity; so that he at least reached the feature of a holy pastor which Paul pointed out to Timothy (4:15): His profiting did appear to all.: In
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