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5.0
This book was almost like a "handbook" of sorts with which one professing faith in Jesus Christ may test himself and determine whether he is a Christian, or what Mead refers to as an "almost Christian". In the true Puritan manner, with exquisite language, the author skillfully crafts a book for any one person pondering how exactly they may know that they are genuinely converted. He answers this one question with four questions of his own, which he promptly proceeds to answer for the benefit of his readers:
i. How far may a man go in the way to heaven, and yet be but almost a Christian?
ii. Why, or whence is it, that many men go so far, as that they come to be almost Christians?
iii. Whence is it that many are but almost Christians when they have gone thus far?
iv. What is the reason that many go no farther in the profession of religion, than to be almost Christians?
As he addresses these questions, he makes a convincing case that, as [a:François Fénelon|638856|François Fénelon|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1242867862p2/638856.jpg] put it in his [b:Dialogues of Fenelon|7478363|Dialogues of Fenelon (Vol. 1)|François Fénelon|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1262473667s/7478363.jpg|9584624],
"what folly to fear giving yourself too entirely to God! it merely means that you are afraid of being too happy, of loving the will of God in all things too heartily, of bearing your inevitable crosses too bravely, of finding too much consolation in the love of God, and too much relief from the passions which make us miserable."