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Excerpt from The Gospel Fountain or the Anxious Youth Made Happy The following attempt of the author to furnish familiar instructions to the young, on the Doctrines of Grace, was undertaken at the request of a valued friend. The mode of illustration by anecdotes was also suggested by him. The task has been a pleasing one, though performed by gas-light, and occupying many successive evenings, after the close of official duties which required his attention during the day. His aim has been to state, prove, and illustrate, in a brief, plain, and scriptural form, some of the great doctrines of the gospel, as embodied more fully in the Standards of the Presbyterian church. In order to avoid making "the book too large," as requested by his friend, two topics have been for the most part omitted, which would otherwise have been discussed. One is repentance, which is inculcated in the gospel, in connection with faith. The other is adoption, which is one of the benefits of effectual calling, and is especially important in its being a guaranty of the saints' perseverance. 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.