Excerpt from Gospel Sonnets, or Spiritual Songs: In Six Parts: 1. Believer's Espousals; 2. Believer's Jointure; 3. Believer's Riddle; 4. Believer's Lodging; 5. Believer's Soliloquy; 6. Believer's Principles; Concerning Creation and Redemption, Law and Gospel, Justification and Sanctification The Rev. Mr. Erskine, author of the following poems, was happy employing his poetical talent to the best ofpurposes: thesubjects he made choice of to handle, were of the utmost importance for mankind to know; his manner of heating them't1uly evangelical; and the spirit that breathes through them heavenly and divine; tending to warm the hea1t, excite to genuine devotion, and to inspiie the mind with Just and p1ope1 sentiments of God and true religion. 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.