Excerpt from The True Believer: His Character, Duty, and Privileges, Elucidated in a Series of Discourses

The design of the following discourses is stated with sufficient explicitness on the title-page. An answer to the inquiry, What are the true character, duties, and privileges of the sons of God, in this life, has now become one of the great and press ing wants of the church. Happy, thrice happy will it be for Zion, if those whom the Holy Ghost has made overseers of the ¿ock of God, shall instruct her rightly in respect to such inquiries. The writer indulges the fond h0pe, that these dis courses, prepared with no little prayer for divine illumination, and the preparation of which has so deeply refreshed his own Spirit, may do something to forward so desirable a result. Zion is the chosen dwelling-place of his heart. He has no interests, nor plans, which are not fully identified with her purification, blessedness, and enlarge ment. Never may he be permitted to write a single line for the public eye, or ear, for any other end. The reason Why these discourses are given to the public, is the full conviction, that the church imperiously needs to be instructed in the knowl edge of the great and precious truths which these discourses were designed to elucidate.

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