THE PEN OF TRUTH***


Transcribed from the 1814 B. Bennett edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

                   [Picture: Public domain book cover]





                                   THE
                              LIVING LETTER,
                             WRITTEN WITH THE
                             _PEN OF TRUTH_,


                           BEING THE SUBSTANCE

                               Of a Sermon,

                             PREACHED AT THE

                 _OBELISK CHAPEL_, _St. George’s Fields_,

                    On SUNDAY Morning, Sept. 26, 1813.

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                        _By J. CHURCH_, _V. D. M._

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    My Tongue is the Pen of a ready Writer.  Psalm xlv.  Ver. 1.

    Written among the living in Jerusalem.  Isaiah, Chap. iv.  V. 3.

    I will write on him my new name.  Rev. Chap. 3.  Ver. 12.

                                * * * * *

                                 London:
                         PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR,
               BY B. BENNETT, TICHBORNE STREET, HAYMARKET.

                                  1814.

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_To Miss K. and Miss M._


_Dear Friends_,

_Grace and Peace be with you_:—_I received your kind present of the
Bundle of Pens_, _and beg your acceptance of my thanks for the same_; _I
really stood in need them_, _and I suppose you thought so by the badness
of my writing_, _or my reluctance in sending out more Sermoms from the
Press_.  _The Pens were very good_, _and I hope to use them for the Glory
of God only_,—_whilst laying before me they led me to reflect on the
passage I selected for a Text preached from on the following Sunday
morning_, _and I now send you the outlines of the Discourse_.  _This
Sermon will no doubt meet with the same reception that others have_;
_some bless_, _some curse_, _some believe the things that are spoken_,
_and some believe not_, _but to the great Head of the Church_, _I humbly
commit my feeble attempt to shew forth his praise_, _praying you may be
able to ascertain your personal interest in the Book of Life_, _where the
names of the elect are enrolled_, _and remain_,

                                   _Your obliged Servant in Christ Jesus_,

                                         [Picture: Signature of J. Church]




A Sermon.


                  II. CORINTHIANS, Chap. iii.  Verses 2 & 3.

    _Ye are our Epistle written in our hearts_, _known and read of all
    men_.  _For as much as ye are manifestly declared to be the Epistle
    of Christ ministered by us_, _written_, _not with ink_, _but with the
    spirit of the Living God_,—_not in tables of stone_, _but in fleshy
    tables of the heart_.

THE Epistle out of which this