Oh, the tenacity of grip which there is in the poor seeking sinner when he once gets some hold of the precious promises of Christ! "Nay, he had a note of necessity in his bosom to my Master, to receive him, and grant him the comfort of His house, and also to allow him a stout and valiant conductor, because he was himself so chicken-hearted a man; and yet for all that, he was afraid to call at the door."

Much of this history is the recorded audio for an American Church History Sunday School class taught in 2019, but I wanted to speak about the history of John Owen's interaction and battle for religious toleration and review the whole of this.

A live Sunday School taught in 2019.

The publisher in the advertisement prefixed to the letter, tells us, "The reader may depend upon it, that the following letter is genuine, from a gentleman who hath always had a good character for sound understanding, integrity, sobriety of manners, piety; and, notwithstanding his engagements in secular affairs, has never been an unconcerned spectator of any thing that might affect the state of religion." But I must beg the publisher's pardon, if I tell him, that I am one of those readers who cannot depend upon all this, merely upon his desiring me to do so.

There is an exact description of many who are on the road to Heaven. They are thoroughly sincere, nobody can doubt that; but they are "so nervous." I think that is how they describe themselves. "So doubtful, so mistrustful, so suspicious, so over-loaded with doubts and fears," would, perhaps, be a truer verdict.

I frankly confess, that Jonah could not go with more reluctance against Ninevah, than I now take pen in hand to write against you. But what can I say? The children of God are in danger of falling into error. December 24th 1740