Memoirs of Miss G , Late of Heathcote Street, Mecklenburgh Square

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: thing since thou hast drawn me to thyself. O let thy grace inspire My soul with strength divine; May all my powers to thee aspire, And all my strength be thine. About this time Miss G.... discontinued her diary, and it does not appear that it was ever afterwards resumed. Interesting extracts from it might...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: thing since thou hast drawn me to thyself. O let thy grace inspire My soul with strength divine; May all my powers to thee aspire, And all my strength be thine. About this time Miss G.... discontinued her diary, and it does not appear that it was ever afterwards resumed. Interesting extracts from it might easily have been multiplied. But the Editor has confined himself to these, because his aim, in selecting them, was to produce no more than were requisite to present her character distinctly before the reader under the various aspects wherein it appeared in these papers. To the attention of the christian reader, it is unnecessary to point out the holy affections and gracious dispositions which these extracts disclose. The Editor had well known Miss G and very highly esteemed her when living; but he never saw her character in so exalted a point of view as when perusing, after her decease, those secret records of humiliation, penitence, and prayer, and those fervent aspirations after the mortification of indwelling sin, conformity to the image of Christ, and holiness of heart and life, with which her diary abounds. The Editor having been kindly favoured with several of Miss G 's letters, he will, thereby, be enabled still to illustrate her character by means of her own pen, even almost up to the period of her death. Some of them, however, belong to a period rather earlier than that at which we are now arrived. In a letter written in May (1815), she thus expresses herself. The Lord is indeed good to me: his tender mercies are over all his works, and he daily, nay hourly, gives me abundant cause to praise him, as he enables me to trace his hand, ordering and appointing all that concerns me. I trust I now feel in a measure that unspeakable consola...