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Title: Extracts from the note-book of Mr. Percival Pug : illustrated by sketches from his portfolio
Year: 1837 (1830s)
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Subjects: Christian life Boys -- Conduct of life Swine
Publisher: Boston : Printed by Torrey & Blair, No. 31 Cornhill
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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and they have then returned to the world withtenfold eagerness. The case of such persons 164 PETER PEPPER. is truly awful. In almost every Instance dothey continue hardened, till the approach ofthe king of terroi^s again awakens in them thefear of impending wrath; and then, but toooften, a death-bed of despair awaits them.Thus, my son, you see the importance of dis-tinguishing between true penitence and thatspurious repentance which aiises from the fearof punishment. And may God grant, that you,my son, may feel that godly sorrow whichworketh repentance unto life, and not thatsorrow which ends in death. And may God grant that the reader of thesepages may be enabled to distinguish betweentliat generous grief which a noble spirit feelsat having offended a good and gracious Bene-factor, and that selfish sorrow which cares forsin only because it dreads the recompense.The first is a savor of life unto life; the last asavor of death unto death, for it cannot evenmitigate the wi-ath it fears.
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PETER PEPPER. 167 CHAPTER IX. Instructs us in the Management of Pigs andother Obstinate Animals, such as StubbornBoys, for instance; to wit, that they must beused without Ceremony. Some months passed away, and Peter con-tinued to evince, by his consistent conduct, thesincerity of his refomiation. Tis true that,once or twice, on a sudden emergency, he didshow some imtabihty; and for this he wasalways really sony ; but obstinacy or stubborn-ness of temper he no longer displayed. Uponthe impulse of the moment, he might becomeangry; but this was less and less frequent,because he was ever striving against his evilpropensities. But continued ill-feeling he couldnot show ; for he was resolute in overcoming thecorruption of his proud heart, so that, wheneverhe had time for reflection, he perceived andfelt the wickedness of an evil temper. More-over, he was in the habit of invoking the aid 16S PETER PEPPER. of the Almiglity; and his help he found suffi-cient for every emergency. Peter, tliough

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