GUIDE ΤΟ ACQUAINTANCE WITH GOD. BY THE REV. JAMES SHERMAN PREFACE. THE substance of the following treatise, was delivered in three short discourses to my congregation, at the commencement of an affliction, which, for seven months past, has incapacitated me for pulpit duties. Many persons expressed their conviction, that the Lord had accompanied them with a divine power to their minds; and requested their publication, for their own and others' advantage. With considerable reluctance I consented to appear thus in print; not from any disinclination to gratify them, nor that I considered the subject unimportant; but because I felt utterly |