Project Gutenberg's Christian Devotedness, by Anthony Norris Groves

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

Title: Christian Devotedness

Author: Anthony Norris Groves

Release Date: January 15, 2008 [EBook #24293]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHRISTIAN DEVOTEDNESS ***

Produced by David Haslam

CHRISTIAN DEVOTEDNESS,
or
The Consideration of Our Saviour's Precept,
"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth".

By Anthony Norris Groves (1795--1853).

Second Edition,

London, James Nisbet,
Berners Street,
MDCCCXXIX.

Before this second edition was issued Groves had taken the step which
he here had advocated. The tract is a revelation of the man, and
affords an insight into the spirit and the glow which made his
ministry attractive to sincere souls, and effectual. It being long
since unobtainable we give it in full. By it he, being dead, may yet
speak, and other hearts be enlarged and enriched, to the glory of
God. It reads:--

PREFACE

In sending a second impression of the following little work into the
world after a lapse of four years from the publication of the former
edition, it may be right to state, that my views on the subject of
it, have undergone no change in the way of relinquishment; but on the
contrary the experience of every day in my own history,--every
observation I have been able to make on the history of those with
whom I have come into the closest contact, and who have either
received or rejected the view, and in whatever degree, has tended
exceedingly to strengthen the conviction on my mind, of the
infinitely deep knowledge of the human heart, and springs of human
actions which these injunctions of our Blessed Lord manifest: and
that he means simply what he says in "Lay not up for yourselves
treasures upon earth," etc. There is an eye-salve in this doctrine,
when received by faith, that wonderfully clears the field of our
spiritual perceptions; therefore, he that can receive it, let him
receive it. Many more, certainly, have been influenced by it, and
some to a much greater extent than I had expected; and the clusters
that have adorned their branches seem to be of the true Eschol
g