Excerpt from The Fruits of the Spirit: Being a Comprehensive View of the Principal Graces With Adorn the Christian Character On the other hand, it must be acknow ledged, that some good men, from a dread of sinking the gospel into a mere system of morals, have almost lost sight of its practical precepts. Their outline is correct and good, but it wants to be filled up and finished: the prinmples at the foundation are sound and well laid, ' but they neglect to carry on the super structure. Whoever seriously and impartially weighs the Scriptures, must perceive that principles and precepts are inse parably connected, and that the doc trines necessary to be believed, are traced forward and branched out mto' 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.