. Family devotions, for every morning and evening throughout the year. Translated from the German of Sturm and Tiede. ??. - FAMILY DEVOTIONS. 11)3 THE BELIEVERS PROGRESS. HIS CONSOLATIONS INAGE AND DECAY. A believer young in years, and young in experience, is oftentempted to judge of himself by his feelings, more than by theword of God. In a good frame he is a good believer. Thenall is well with him : but when he is walking in darkness, heis very apt to question his state. If all be right with me,why am I thus ? My present frame is very dull and uncom-fortable—I am not so lively as I used to b
. Family devotions, for every morning and evening throughout the year. Translated from the German of Sturm and Tiede. ??. - FAMILY DEVOTIONS. 11)3 THE BELIEVERS PROGRESS. HIS CONSOLATIONS INAGE AND DECAY. A believer young in years, and young in experience, is oftentempted to judge of himself by his feelings, more than by theword of God. In a good frame he is a good believer. Thenall is well with him : but when he is walking in darkness, heis very apt to question his state. If all be right with me,why am I thus ? My present frame is very dull and uncom-fortable—I am not so lively as I used to be in prayer, or inordinances—my delight in God, and the things of God, is farshort of what it was formerly, perhaps I have been deceivingmyself, and crying, Peace, peace, when there was no peacefor me. From this temptation, age itself is a sort of deliverance : self-activity is weakened, and thereby, through grace, self-depen-dence. The believer, if he be a good scholar, will now learnto walk more by faith, and less by sight: the vigour of hissenses is decaying ; the high spirits of youth are abating ;his presen
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