OBSERVATIONS

ON THE COMMENCEMENT AND PROGRESS

OF THE WORK OF

VITAL RELIGION IN THE SOUL;

ON

DIVINE WORSHIP;

AND ON THE PARTAKING OF THE FLESH AND BLOOD

OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.

BY SAMUEL RUNDELL.

THIRD EDITION.

MANCHESTER:

JOHN HARRISON, PRINTER, MARKET STREET.

1845.

INTRODUCTION.

WHEN We look around us, and observe how many conflicting creeds and systems of religion are sedulously propagated in the present day, our reflections on the subject should lead us to appreciate duly the privileges with which, through divine love and mercy, we are favoured; the Light of Christ being given to illuminate our minds, and the Holy Scriptures being placed within our reach, to which we can refer for instruction. In the Sacred Record, the doctrine preached by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, on the subject of the Redemption and Salvation of Man, is clearly exhibited. As no other subject of equal interest and importance can be presented to us, may these few pages, designed to point out from this high authority the way by which all mankind may come to the knowledge of the Truth, and be saved, prove the means, under the divine blessing, not only of convincing the merely nominal Christian of