DEALINGS OF GOD, MAN, AND THE DEVIL; AS EXEMPLIFIED IN THE LIFE, EXPERIENCE, AND TRAVELS OF LORENZO DOW, IN A PERIOD OF OVER HALF A CENTURY: TOGETHER WITH HIS POLEMIC AND MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS, COMPLETE. TO WHICH IS ADDED THE VICISSITUDES OF LIFE, BY PEGGY DOW. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.-David. WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY THE REV. JOHN DOWLING, D. D., OF NEW YORK, TWO VOLUMES IN ONE. VOL I. NEW YORK: SHELDON, LAMPORT & BLAKEMAN, through misrepresentation,) some doctrines which I regard as bible truths-yet his faith was fixed upon the rock of ages, that he held most firmly the great fundamental truths of the glorious gospel-the depravity of man, the necessity of regeneration by the Holy Ghost, and the divinity and atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ-and that he will at the last day be found among those who shall have turned many to righteousness, and who will "shine as the sun in the firmament, and as the stars for ever." The wife of Lorenzo,- Peggy Dow, seems to have been a christian of a kindred spirit with himself. The reader will, doubtless, be gratified to learn that her journal is included in the present edition of the works of Mr. Dow, and also a number of the publications of the latter (obtained by correspondence with the surviving members of his family,) which have never before been embodied in any edition of his works. The writer of the present brief essay therefore has no hesitation in commending the present, as the best and most complete edition ever yet published of the works of this extraordinary and eccentric, but godly and useful man. JOHN DOWLING. Berean Parsonage, New York, March 1st, 1849 |