Required reading
A treatise on Satan's temptations by Richard Gilpin (Available from Amazon or free here) - Conclude the 'Memoir of Richard Gilpin'.
My summary
Today we finish hearing about the life of Gilpin.
We learn about Gilpin's:
(i) second marriage;
(ii) assistant ministers;
(iii) correspondence;
(iv) death;
(v) preaching;
(vi) prayer life;
(vii) writings.
What grabbed me
I enjoyed hearing about Gilpin's prayers: 'In prayer he was likewise most solemn and fervent, and usually expressed himself much in Scripture language, and with a flood of affection. The very fountains of it seemed in the performance of that duty to be broken up and the great deep of it opened. It often forced him to silence for a little till it had flowed out at his eyes.'
If only we all had power to pray so fervently.
Next week's reading
Read 'To the reader' and Chapters 1 and 2.
Now it's your turn
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