Companions for a Quiet Hour. I. A COMPANION TO THE LORD'S TABLE. II. PRIVATE THOUGHTS ON DEVOTION. III. AN INFALLIBLE WAY TO CONTENTMENT. IV. LUTHER'S TABLE TALK. V. A COLLECTION OF THE PROMISES OF SCRIPTURE. THE ANXIOUS INQUIRER AFTER Salvation DIRECTED AND ENCOURAGED. BY THE REV. JOHN ANGELL JAMES, THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY: INTRODUCTION. Directions for the profitable Reading of the following Treatise. T may seem strange to some persons, that I should give directions for the performance of an act so well understood as the perusal of a book; and especially the perusal of a book of so simple and elementary a kind as this. But the fact is, that multitudes either do not know, or do not remember at the time, how to read to advantage; and, therefore, profit but little by what they read. Besides, simple and elementary as is this treatise, it is on a subject of infinite and eternal importance, and is perused in the most critical season of a man's everlasting history; when, in a very peculiar sense, every means of grace, and this among the rest, will be either a savour of death unto death, or of life unto life," to the reader. Tremendous idea! 66 But strictly true. Reader, whosoever thou art, it is no presumptuous thought of the author, to believe that thou wilt remember the contents of this small trea |