George Whitefield: An Almost Christian
Revived Thoughts
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The Unsteadiness of Temper
Many a minister and sincere Christian has met with to weep and wail over numbers of promising converts, who seemingly began in the spirit but after a while fell away. This is not for want of right notions in religion, nor out of a fear of man, nor from the love of money, or of essential pleasure, but through an instability and fickleness of temper. And this is the fifth and last reason I will give, why so many are only almost, and not altogether Christians. We proceed now to the general thing proposed, namely, to consider the folly of being no more than an almost Christian.
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