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SERMONI.

The Sinfulness and Misery of Man.

PSALM XIV.2, 3.

HE Lord looked down from Heaven upon the Children
of Men; to see if there were any that did understand
and Seek God.

They are all gone afide, they are altogether become filthy:
there is none that doth Good, nó nót one.

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Complaint of the general Unconcernedness about

Salvation,

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ibid.

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Yet the Gospel a glorious Salvation,

Faith in Christ, and the new Creature, contain the

Government,

ibid.

He has loft the Image of God, and is left in a State

of Unfitness for Gop and Happiness,

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17

And a Sentence of Wrath is gone forth against the

World,

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And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondred

Nor fatisfy the Demands of God's infinite Justice, 38

49

Therefore mine own Arm brought Salvation unto me.

Jesus Christ is able to fuccour Sinners, having taken

away all the dreadful Circumstances that follow

upon Sin: And, withal, he is willing to do so, 52

He hath fully vindicated, and restored God's injured

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ibid.

Glory,

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He hath obtained Power to renew the Hearts of Men

to their original Purity,

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55

He hath fatisfied the Demands of divine Justice, and

all this by his Obedience even unto Death, 58

He is as willing to save, as he is able,

A Review of the Whole in a ferious Expoftulation with

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SERMON IV.

Faith in CHRIST.

JOHN VI. 37-

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-Him that cometh to me, I will in no wife caft out. 73

The Sinner sensible of his Misery and Helplessness, 74

And perfuaded of CHRIST'S Power and Love, 75

Determines to rest upon him, and venture all his
eternal Interests with him,

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ibid.

More particularly, is come to him for Pardon and

Peace with God, through the alone Merit of his

Death and Righteousness,

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77

And to be rescued from the Slavery of Sin and Satan,

78

And submits himself to be directed by his word and

And by his meekly following the holy Scriptures, 83

A daily Communication between the Savior and

real Believer,

84

The Foundation upon which this Intercourse stands,

85, &c.

The Believer is to labor after a deeper Sense of his

being loft and undone in himself,

85

To be sensible of his Insufficiency,

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86

To aim at more enlarged Views of the Fulness of

Chrift,

ibid.

To feek more and more after a Perfuafion of Chrift's

Forgiveness of Sins, Adoption, a Child-like Dispo

fition, the Care of a Redeemer, a delightful Fel-

lowship with the Faithful, a thankful Enjoyment

of all God's Creatures, a Hope of immortal Blef-
fednefs,

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SERMON V.

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The Believer a new Creature.

2 COR. V. 17.

If any Man be in CHRIST, he is a new Creature. 99

A Change wrought by the Grace of God upon the
Heart properly called a new Creature, the assured
Confequence and Evidence of Union with Chrift

100

The Author's Plan in describing the Character of the

new Creature,

103

The Sinner's Eyes opened to a right Sense of himself

The new Creature's main Business is the Care of his

The careless Sinner the Reverse of this Character, 112

The Formalist's Character farther confidered,

116

The new Creature ready and peculiarly forward to

spiritual Things,

117

He hungers after Growth in his heavenly Business

and spiritual Concerns,

122

The new Creature's Character and that of the careless

Sinner's, quite different,....

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SERMON.

SERMON VI.

2. COR. V. 17.

The three eminent Faculties of the Soul in great Dif-

order by the Fall; namely, the Understanding, the

Will, and the Affections,

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Concerning the Will of the new Creature,

163

The new Creature chooses God for his Portion, and

The new Creature's Choice,

167

The new Creature chooses Gob's Will, and not his

own Pleasure,

The Formal and the Careless do not,

169, &.

ibid.

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