Being a record of Asher, son of Gideon, of the house of Joseph; preserved as a warning to those who build their tabernacle upon sand that shineth like gold. A companion to the Book of Job.
A note from the recorder: The Book of Job teaches us what a strong testimony looks like when it is tested by suffering. This record teaches what a weak testimony looks like when it is protected from suffering. The adversary's strategy in both cases is the same: the separation of a soul from God. Only the method differs.
Chapter 1§
Of Asher's birth and the nature of his youth; how good fortune attended him from his earliest days, and the error he made in accounting for it.
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Chapter 2§
Of the council in the courts of heaven before the foundation of Asher's prosperity; of the design of the adversary; and of the two kinds of faith.
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Chapter 3§
Of Asher's prosperity in his business and his household; and how prosperity became doctrine, and doctrine became a wall between him and those who suffered.
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Chapter 4§
Of the instrument of great knowing that Asher obtained in the latter days; how he placed his trust therein above the promptings of the Spirit; and how his testimony became a borrowed thing.
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Chapter 5§
Of how Asher judged the poor and the afflicted in the pride of his certainty; and how he became, without knowing it, the very figure the prophets had warned against.
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Chapter 6§
Of the hour of the adversary's withdrawal; and how the trials that God had long prepared for Asher, having been held back so long, came upon him suddenly and all at once.
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Chapter 7§
Of Asher's cry in the darkness of his affliction; and how his former certainty became, in the hour of his need, an accusation against God rather than a comfort.
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Chapter 8§
Of the messenger who came to Asher in his affliction; and what he taught him concerning the difference between the blessings of God and the counterfeit peace of the adversary.
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Chapter 9§
Of Asher's rebuilding; how failure became his teacher at last; and the strange peace that he found in the midst of not-knowing.
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Chapter 10§
A warning to the reader; of false testimonies and counterfeit blessings; and of the adversary's subtlest craft in the latter days.
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