Excerpt from Roots and Fruits of the Christian Life, or Illustrations of Faith and Obedience Now, by the grace of the Lord and the ministry of the Spirit, these three have an abode on the earth but they came from heaven. They flourish in the Wilderness, but they are the planting of the Lord. These three! The finger of God is pointing to them as the Objects on earth that he loves best to look upon - as the fragments re maining yet of a lost paradise, and the earnests Of a coming heaven. 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.