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FRAGMENTS FROM MY PORTFOLIO.

BY MRS. PHOEBE PALMER,

Author of

"The Way of Holiness," "Present to my Christian Friend," &c.

HIS NAME IS CALLED THE WORD OF GOD.-ST. JOHN.

ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE TO HIM THAT BELIEVETH.-JESUS.
BY WORKS WAS FAITH MADE PERFECT.-ST. JAMES.

HOW CAN YE BELIEVE WHO RECEIVE HONOR ONE OF ANOTHER?

10th Thousand.

JESUS.

New-York:

PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR, AT 200 MULBERRY-STREET.

JOSEPH LONGKING, PRINTER.

1850.

FEE

996407A

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PREFACE.

WHAT IS FAITH? This is a question, which by the pious of all ages has been regarded as preeminently important. And surely the magnitude of the inquiry cannot be estimated beyond what its merit demands. What question can be more momentous to one who would secure the divine approval, since without faith it is impossible to please God? Yet the subject of faith has been so ably discussed by theologians of deep piety, that the author of this work has no intention of entering upon this ground as the revealer of any new theory. She may not speak of a higher anticipation than that of bringing forth truths as old as the Bible, with the humble hope that the Holy Spirit may cause them to be presented to the reader with vitality and freshness.

And why write a book, if nothing new to communicate? We answer, with the hope that some sincere inquirer, who may have been long looking for some new revelation, or that some great thing be wrought, may cease the vain endeavor, and in lowliness of mind ask for the old paths.

Few, perhaps, have been more perplexed in relation to faith than the writer was in early life.

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