PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION.
So many and so remarkable have been the instances which have come to the author's knowledge of a divine blessing attending the reading of this book, to the turning of men from infidelity, not only to the belief of the truth, but to the earnest following of Christ, that he cannot but regard it as a call from God to endeavor to promote more widely its circulation. It would make a very interesting little book were it in the power of the author to recollect and relate the particulars of the many cases of persons who have ascribed their conversion from infidelity, and their affectionate embracing of the gospel, under the blessing of God, to the use of this little, unpretending work. In many instances, the accounts were given to the author by the persons themselves earnestly seeking an interview for the purpose; in others, by their friends made happy by their conversion, or by those who had advised the reading of the book, and wished its writer to be partaker with them in the joy of knowing that it had been made a signal blessing. Some are now in the ministry of the gospel, who, when they began the perusal, were in the darkness of infidelity. A copy of the first edition was sent by the author, as a present, to the