Excerpt from The Fulfilling of the Scripture: For Confirming Believers and Convincing Unbelievers It is very discernible what a great differ ence there is, both in ministers and Christians, at different times in the discharge of duty, as if they were not the same persons; which appears not only in the enlargement or straitening of their gift, but also in its power and life. With what liberty do they sometimes pray, and are as a ship with a full gale before the wind! It is then easy to preach; when at other times even lockers-on may perceive a sensible languishing, and their very expressions hampered, yea, they are as men rowing against a contrary wind, the word wanting that savour and relish it has had at other times; and this not through a natural indisposition, or want of preparation, but that which all who ever served God in the Spirit must confess has most sensibly affected them, when they have thought themselves at the greatest ad vantage for going about duty. 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.