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The Works of the Rev. Henry Scougal contains his most well-known work, The Life of God in the Soul of Man, along with nine of Scougal’s discourses. Scougal writes about purity before God and devotion to his will, and he calls his readers toward a life of piety and devotion to God. His writings profoundly affected John and Charles Wesley and George Whitefield—one of the key leaders of the Great...

come next to give an account why I defined it by the name of divine life. And so it may be called, not only in regard to its fountain and original, having God for its author, and being wrought in the souls of men by the power of his Holy Spirit; but also in regard to its nature, religion being a resemblance of the divine perfections, the image of the Almighty shining in the soul of man: nay, it is a real participation of his nature; it is a beam of the eternal light, a drop of that infinite ocean
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