Author: Jeanne Guyon

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-11-10

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9781397189967

Excerpt from The Life of Lady Guion, Vol. 1 of 2: Written in French, by Herself, Now Abridged, and Translated Into English IT intimates what torrents of abuse were poured out against her, not only from the corrupt part of the people, but from the violent prejudices even of some of the better sort like those of the Apostle Paul, who, in the days of his misguided zeal, exert ed his utmost efforts in persecuting the christians, and thought he was serving the cause of God there in then adds, No sooner had the author's writ ings made their appearance, than such as candidly perused them were fully convinced that they came from God, and tended to the salvation of souls. They could have no doubt of it, so long as they re garded nothing but God and his glory But when the enemy, by his temptations, or the artifices of his agents, turned their view from that point, to other objects, several fell off some of whom have been recovered, while others have remained so deep ly rivetted in their alienation, as to Oppose with all their might the very truth which before they had te lished, and to use their endeavours to cause to be uni versally decried whatever could come from that source, as poison which every body ought to be on their guard against. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.