Am I A Christian?

James Fraser endured a long conflict with doubts and in this little book, Am I a Christian?, he records how he overcame his fears and arrived at a firm assurance of his salvation in Christ. Taken from his memoirs Memoirs of the Rev. James Fraser of Brea, found in Scottish Puritans: Select Biographies, volume two. In his book Heaven on Earth, Thomas Brooks wrote, 'A man may be a true believer, and yet would give all the world, were it in his power, to know that he is a believer. To have grace, and to be sure that we have grace is heaven on this side of heaven.'

Publisher: Banner of Truth
Type: paperback
ISBN: 9781848710146

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JAMES FRASER was born on July 29, 1639. After briefly considering the principles of the Quakers, he began to teach Scripture and was ordained in 1670 or 1672 by some ejected ministers. He preached frequently until July 1674 when he was summoned to appear before the Privy Council. When he refused, he was denounced as a rebel, arrested in 1677 and imprisoned on the notorious Bass Rock. Regarding this imprisoned Fraser, Alexander Smellie wrote, 'no persecution could make his heart bankrupt or could lessen his fruit-bearing. Every day, Fraser records, 'I read the Scriptures, exhorted and taught therefrom, did sing psalms, and prayed with such of our society as our masters did permit to worship God together, and this two times a day.'

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To read the work of a Puritan doctor of the soul is to enter a rich world of spiritual theology to feed the mind, heart-searching analysis to probe the conscience, Christ-centred grace to transform the heart, and wise counsel to direct the life. This series of Pocket Puritans provides all this in miniature, but also in abundance.' --Dr. Sinclair B. Ferguson