The Evangelical Succession

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Excerpt from The Evangelical Succession: A Course of Lectures, Delivered in Free St. George's Church, Edinburgh, 1883-84, Third SeriesHis faculties and affections uniformly under wise control, he favours us with no disclosure of the inward workings of his spirit, and no statement in regard to the incidents of his life, or the public movements with which his name was identified, beyond a few facts gleaned from some prefaces to his works. It is a marvellous instance of humility, when throughout twenty - four densely printed octavo volumes, so little of self-consciousness appears in his works, and hardly an egotistic reference can be found. There is but one exception to the truth of this remark. \vhen the heart of Owen warms and opens under the influence of his love to Christ, his sentences sometimes glow with emotion, shedding a solemn light upon his secret principles of action and the real elements of his character. Otherwise we have no diary of religious experience, no details of domestic life, no glimpse behind the screen of his modest privacy. His biography, in the main, must be traced in the public events of his age, his personal in¿uence is seen in the extent to which his writings have moulded and consolidated the religious thought of his own and subsequent generations.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.