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Awake thou that sleepest. Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead,
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and Christ shall give thee light Ephesians five fourteen. In discoursing on these
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words, I shall, with the help of God, first describe the sleepers
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to whom they are spoken. Secondly enforce the exhortation Awake thou that sleepest,
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and arise from the dead. And thirdly explain the promise made to such as
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do awake and arise, Christ shall give thee light. And first as to
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the sleepers here spoken to by sleep, is signified the natural state of man,
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that deep sleep of the soul into which the sin of Adam hath cast
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all who spring from his loins, that supineness, indolence and stupidity, the
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insensibility of his real condition, wherein every man comes into the world and continues
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till the voice of God awakes him. Now they that sleep sleep in the
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night. The state of nature is a state of utter darkness, a state
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wherein darkness cover the earth and grows darkness the people. The poor, unawakened
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sinner, how much knowledge soever he may have as to other things, has
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no knowledge of himself. In this respect, he knoweth nothing. Yet is
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he ought to know. He knows not that he is a fallen spirit whose
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only business in the present world is to recover from his fall, to regain
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that image of God wherein he was created. He sees no necessity for the
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one thing needful, even that inward universal change, that birth from above,
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figured out by baptism, which is the beginning of that total renovation, that
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sanctification of spirit, soul and body, without which no man shall see.
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The loud full of all diseases as he is, he fancies himself in perfect
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health, vast bound in misery and iron. He dreams that he is at
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liberty. He says peace, peace, while the devil, as a strong
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man armed, is in full possession of his soul. He sleeps on still
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and takes his rest, though Hell is moved from beneath to meet him,
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though the pit, from whence there is no return, hath opened its mouth
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to swallow him up. A fire is killed around him, yet he knoweth
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it not. Yea it burns him, Yet he lays it not to heart.
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By one who sleeps, we are therefore to understand, in which to
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God we might all understand it. A sinner satisfied in his sins, contented
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to remain in his fallen state, to live and die without the image of
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God. One who is ignorant both of his disease and of the only remedy
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for it. One who never was warned or never regarded the warning voice of
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God to flee from the wrath to come. One that never yet saw he
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was in danger of health fire, or cried out in the earnestness of a
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soul, what must I do to be saved? If this sleeper be not
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outwardly vicious, his sleep is usually the deepest of all. Whether he be
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of the Ladacian spirit, neither cold nor hot, but a quiet, rational,
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inoffensive, good natured professor of the religion of his fathers, whether he
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be zealous and orthodox, and after the most straitest sect of our religion.
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Live a pharisee, that is, according to the scriptural account, one that
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just suffies himself, one that labors to establish his own righteousness as the ground
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of his acceptance with God. This is he who, having a form of
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guidliness, denies the power thereof Yea and probably reviles it wheresoever it is found
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is mere extravagance and delusion, Meanwhile, the wretched self deceiver, thanks God
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that he is not as other men are, adulterers, unjust extortioners. No,
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he doeth no wrong to any man. He fasts twice in a week,
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uses all the means of grace, is constant church at sacraments yea,
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and gives tithes of all he has, does all the good that he can,
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touching the righteousness of the law. He is blameless. He wants nothing
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of Godliness but the power, nothing of religion but the spirit, nothing of
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Christianity but the truth and the life. But know ye not that, however
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highly esteemed among men, such a Christian as this may be, he is
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an abomination in the sight of God, and an air of every woe which
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the Son of God, yesterday to day and forever denounces against scribes and pharisees
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hypocrites. He hath made clean the outside of the cup and the platter,
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but within is full of all filthiness, an evil disease cleaveth still unto him,
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so that his inward parts are very wickedness. Our Lord fitly compares him
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to a painted suppulcher, which appears beautiful without, but nevertheless is full of
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dead men's bones. And of all uncleanness. The bones indeed are no longer
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dry. The sinews and flesh are come upon them, and the skin covers
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them above. But there's no breath in them. Most spirit of the Living
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God. And if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is
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none of his. Ye are Christ's, if so be that the spirit of
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God dwell on you. But if not, God knoweth that ye abide in
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death. Even until now. This is another character of the sleeper here spoken
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to He abides in death, though he knows it not. He is dead
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unto God, dead and trespasses in sins for to be carnly minded as death.
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Even as it is written by one man, sin entered into the world,
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and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, not
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only temporal death, but likewise spiritual and eternal. In that day that thou
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eidst said God to Adam, thou shalt surely die, not bodily, unless
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as he then became mortal, but spiritually thou shalt lose the life of thy
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soul. Thou shalt die to God, shalt be separated from him thy essential
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life and happiness. Thus first was dissolved the vital union of our soul with
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God, insomuch that in the midst of natural life we are Thou in spiritual
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death, and herein we remain till the second atom becomes a quickening spirit to
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us, till he raises the dead, the dead and sin in pleasure,
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riches or honors. But before any dead soul can live, he hears,
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hearkens to the voice of the Son of God, he is made sensible of
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his lost estate and receive the sentence of death, and himself he knows himself
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to be dead, while he liveth dead to God and all the things of
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God, having no more power to perform the actions of a living Christian than
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a dead body to perform the functions of a living man. And most certain
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it is that one dead in sin has not senses exercise to discern spiritual good
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and evil. Having eyes, he sees not, he hath ears, and
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hears not. He doth not taste and see that the Lord is gracious.
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He hath not seen God at any time, or heard his voice, or
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handled the word of life. In vain is the name of Jesus, like
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white men poured forth, and all his garments smell of myrrh aloes. And
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Cassia. The soul that sleepeth and death hath no perception of any objects of
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this kind. His heart is past feeling, and understandeth none of these things,
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and hence, having no spiritual senses, no inlets of spiritual knowledge,
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the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God. Nay,
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he is so far from receiving them, that whosoever is spiritually discerned is mere
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foolishness. Unto him is not content with being utterly ignorant of spiritual things,
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but he denies the very existence of them, And spiritual sensation itself is to
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him the foolishness of folly. How saith he can these things be? How
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can any man know that he is alive? To God? Even as you
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know that your body is now alive, is the life of the soul?
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If ye have this life abiding in you, ye want no marks to evidence
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it to yourself. But electos Numatos, that divine consciousness, that witness of
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God, which is more and greater than ten thousand human witnesses. If he
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doth not now bear witness with thy spirit that thou art a child of God,
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oh that he might convince thee thou poor and awakened sinner by his demonstration
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and power, that thou art a child of the devil. Oh that I
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prophesy there might now be a noise in a shaking, and made the bones
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come together bone to his bone. Then come from the four winds, O
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breath and breathe on thee slain, that they may live, and do not
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ye Harden your hearts and resist the Holy ghost whom ye've been. Thou hast
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come to convince you of sin because you believe not on the name of the
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only begotten Son of God. Wherefore awake thou that sleepest, and arise from
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the dead. God calleth thee now by my mouth and bids thee know thyself,
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thou fallen spirit, thy true state, and only concern below what meanest
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thou, O sleeper, arise, Call upon thy God. If so be
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thy God will think upon thee, that thou perish not. The mighty tempest
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is stirred up around thee, and thou art sinking into the depths of perdition,
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the gulf of God's judgments. If thou wouldst escaped them, cast thyself
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into them. Judge thyself, and thou shalt not be judged of the Lord.
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Awake, awake, stand up this moment, lest thou drink at the
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Lord's hand the cup of his fury. Stir up thyself to lay hold on
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the Lord, the Lord, thy righteousness mighty, to save, shake thyself
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from the dust. At least, let the earthquake of God's threatenings shake thee
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awake and cry out with the trembling jailer, what must I do to be
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saved? And never rest till thou believest on the Lord Jesus with the faith
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which is his gift by the operation of His spirit. If I speak to
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any of you more than to another, it is to THEE who thinkest thyself
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unconcerned. In this exhortation, I have a message from God unto thee.
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In his name. I warn thee to flee from the wrath. To come,
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Thou, unholy soul, see thy picture and condemn Peter lying in the
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dark dungeon, between the soldiers, bound with two chains, the keepers before
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the door, keeping the prison. The night is far spent, the morning
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is at hand when thou art to be brought forth to execution. And in
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these dreadful circumstances the art fast asleep, the art, fast asleep in the
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devil's arms, on the brink of the pit, in the jaws of everlasting
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destruction. Oh, may the Angel of the Lord come upon thee and the
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light shine into thy prison. And mayst thou feel the stroke of an almighty
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hand raising thee with a rise up. Quickly, gird thyself and bind on
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thy sandals. Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me. Awake thou
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everlasting spirit, out of thy dream of worldly happiness? Did not God create
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THEE for himself? Then thou canst not rest till thou restest in him.
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Return, Thou wanderer, fly back to thy ark. This is not thy
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home. Think not of building tabernacles here Thou art but a stranger, is
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sojourn or upon earth, a creature of a day, but ist launching out
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into an unchangeable state. Make haste. Eternity is at hand. Eternity depends
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on this moment, an eternity of happiness or an eternity of misery? In
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what state is thy soul? Was God? Why aing yet speaking to require
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it of thee? Art Thou ready to meet death in judgment? Canst thou
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stand in His sight? Who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity.
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Art thou meet to be partaker of the inheritance of the saints and light.
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Hast thou fought a good fight and kept the faith. Hast thou secured the
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one thing needful. Hast thou recovered the image of God, even righteousness and
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true holiness. As thou put off the old man and put on the new,
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art thou clothed upon with Christ. Hast thou oil in thy lamp grace
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in thy heart. Dost thou love the Lord, thy God with all thy
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heart, with all thy mind, with all thy soul, and with all
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thy strength. Is that mind in Thee which was also in Christ Jesus.
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Art thou a Christian? Indeed, that is a new creature. Old things
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passed away, and all things become new. Art thou a partaker of the
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divine nature. Knowest thou not that Christ is in Thee, except thou be
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reprobate. Knowest thou that God dwelleth in THEE, and thou in God,
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by His Spirit, which He hath given Thee. Knowest thou not that thy
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body is a temple of the Holy Ghost, which thou hast of God,
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hast all the witness in thyself, the earnestness of thine inheritance. Hast thou
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received the Holy Spirit? Or hast thou started the question not knowing whether there
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be any Holy Ghost? If it offends thee be thou assured that thou art
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neither a Christian nor desirest to be one. Nay, thy very prayers turned
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into sin, and thou hast solemnly mocked God this very day by praying for
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the inspiration of his Holy Spirit, when thou didst not believe that there was
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any such thing to be received. Yet, on the authority of God's word
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in our own church, I must repeat the question, hast thou received the
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Holy Ghost? If thou hast not thou art not yet a Christian? For
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a Christian is a man that is anointed with the Holy Ghost and with power.
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Thou art not yet made up artaker of pure religion and undefiled. Dost
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thou know what religion is? Use it as a participation of the divine nature,
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the life of God and the soul of man Christ formed in the heart
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Christ. In thee the hope of glory, happiness and holiness heaven begun upon
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earth, a Kingdom of God within thee, not meat and drink, no
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outward thing, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost and everlasting
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Kingdom, brought into thy soul, a peace of God that passeth all understanding,
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a joy unspeakable and full of glory. Knowest thou that in Jesus Christ,
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neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith that worketh by love,
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but a new creation. Seest thou the necessity of that inward change,
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that spiritual birth, that life from the dead, that holiness, and art
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thou thoroughly convinced that without it no man shall see the Lord. Art thou
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laboring after it, give all diligence to make thy calling and election sure,
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working out thy salvation with fear and trembling, agonizing to enter in at the
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strait gate. Art thou in earnest about thy soul? And canst thou tell
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the surture of hearts? Thou, O God, art the thing thy long
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for Lord? Thou knowest all things. Thou knowest that I would love thee
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Thou hopest to be saved. But what reason hast thou to give of the
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hope that is in THEE. Is it because thou hast done no harm,
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or because thou hast done much good? Or because thou art not like other
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men, but wise or learned, or honest and morally good, esteemed of
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men, and of a fair reputation. Alas all this will never bring THEE
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to God. It is in his account lighter than vanity. Dost thou know
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Jesus Christ, whom he hath sent. Hath He taught THEE that by grace
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we are saved through faith, and that not of ourselves. It is the
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gift of God, not of works. Lest any man should boast. Hast
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thou received the faithful, saying as the whole foundation of thy hope? That
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Jesus Christ came into the world to save Sinnersest thou learned what that meaneth I
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came not to call the righteous, but to sinners to repentance. I am
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not sent but unto the lost sheep. Art thou he that heareth Let him
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understand lost dead damned? Already? Dost thou know thy deserts, Dost thou
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feel thy wants? Art Thou poor in spirit? Mourning for God and refusing
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to be comforted is the prodigal come to himself and will content to be therefore
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thought beside himself by those who are still feeding upon the husks which he hath
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left. Art thou willing to live godly in Christ Jesus, And dost thou
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therefore suffer persecution? Do men say all manner of evil against thee falsely for
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the son of man's sake? Oh, then are all these questions? Ye
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may hear the voice that wakes the dead, and feel that hammer of the
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Word which breaketh the rocks and pieces. If ye will hear his voice to
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day at is called today hard not your hearts now awake Thou that sleepest in
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spiritual death, Thou sleep not in death eternal, Feel thy lost estate,
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and arise from the dead. Leave thine old companions and sin and death follow
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thou Jesus, and let the dead bury their dead. Save thyself from this
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untoward generation. Come out from among them, and be thou separate, and
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touch not the unclean thing, And the Lord shall receive thee. Christ shall
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give thee light. This promise I come lastly to explain. And how encouraging
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a consideration is this, that whosoever thou art, who obeyest his call,
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thou canst not seek his face in vain. If thou even now awakest and
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arisest from the dead, he hath bound himself to give thee light. The
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Lord shall give thee grace and glory, the light of his grace here and
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the light of his glory. When thou receivest the crown that fadeth not away,
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thy light shall break forth as the morning, and thy darkness be as
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the noonday. God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness,
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shall shine in thy heart to give the knowledge of the glory of God.
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In the face of Jesus Christ. On them that fear the Lord, shall
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the Son of righteousness or rise with healing in his wings. And in that
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day, it shall be said, unto thee arise shine, for thy light
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is, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon Thee. For Christ
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shall reveal himself in THEE. And he is the true Light. God is
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Light, and will give himself to every awakened sinner that waiteth for him.
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And thou shalt then be a temple of the Living God. And Christ shall
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dwell in thy heart by faith and being rooted and grounded in love, thou
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shalt be able to comprehend with all saints. What is the breath and length,
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and depth and height of the love of Christ which passeth knowledge. You
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see your calling, brethren. We are called to be an inhabitation of God
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through his spirit, and through his spirit, dwelling in us to be saints
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here and partakers of the inheritance of the saints and light. So exceeding greater
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are the promises which are given unto us, actually given unto us who believe.
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For by faith we receive not the spirit of the world, but the
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spirit which of God, the sum of all the promises, that we may
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know the things that are freely given to us of God. The Spirit of
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Christ is that great gift of God, which, at sundry time and in
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divers manners he hath promised to man and hath fully bestowed. Since the time
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that Christ was glorified, those promises before made to the fathers he hath thus
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fulfilled. I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in
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my statutes. Ezek you thirty six twenty seven. I will pour water upon
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him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground. I will pour my
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spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon Thine offspring Isaiah forty four.
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Three. Ye may all be living witnesses of these things, a remission of
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sins in the gift of the Holy Ghost. If thou canst believe, all
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things are possible to him that believeth Who among you is there that feareth the
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Lord, and yet walketh on in darkness and hath no light. I ask
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THEE in the name of Jesus, believest thou that his arm is not shortened
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at all, that he has stole mighty to save, that He is the
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same yesterday to day and forever, that he hath now power on earth to
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forgive sins. Son, be of good cheer. Thy sins are forgiven God
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for Christ's sake hath forgiven. THEE receive this not as the word of man,
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but as it is indeed the word of God. And thou art justified
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freely through faith. Thou shalt be sanctified also through faith which is in Jesus.
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And thou shalt set to thy seal even thine that God hath given unto
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us eternal life in this life is in His son. Men and brethren,
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let me freely speak to you, and suffer ye the word of exhortation,
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even from one the least esteemed in the Church. Your conscience beareth you witness
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in the Holy Ghost that these things are so. If so be, ye
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hath tasted that the Lord is gracious. This is eternal life. To know
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the only true God, in Jesus Christ, whom he hath sent. This
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experimental knowledge, in this alone is true Christianity. He is a Christian who
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hath received the Spirit of Christ. He is not a Christian who hath not
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received him. Neither is it possible to have received him and know it not.
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For that day when he cometh, saith, our Lord, ye shall
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know that I am in my Father and you and me, and I in
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you. This is that spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because
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it seeth him not neither knoweth him. But ye know him, for he
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dwelleth with you and shall be in you John fourteen seventeen. The world cannot
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receive him but utterly reject the promise of the Father, contradicting and blaspheming.
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But every spirit which confesseth not this is not of God. Yea, this
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is the spirit of Antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come into
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the world, even now it is in the world. He is Antichrist who
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serve denies the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, or that the dwelling Spirit of
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God is the common privilege of all believers, the blessing of the Gospel,
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the unspeakable gift, the universal promise, the criterion of a real Christian.
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If nothing helps them to say, we do not deny the assistance of God's
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Spirit, but only this inspiration, this receiving the Holy Ghost and being sensible
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of it. Is only this feeling of the Spirit, this being moved by
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the Spirit or filled with it, which we deny to have any place in
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sound religion. But in only denying this, you deny the whole script,
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the whole truth and promise and testimony of God. Our own excellent Church knows
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nothing of this devilish distinction, but speaks plainly of feeling the Spirit of Christ,
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of being moved by the Holy ghosts. In knowing and feeling, there
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is no other name than that of Jesus, whereby we can receive life and
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salvation. She teaches us all to pray for the inspiration of the Holy Spirit,
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yea, that we may be filled with the Holy Ghost. Nay,
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and every presbyter of hers professes to receive the Holy Ghost by the imposition of
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hands. And therefore to deny any of these is in effect to renounce the
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Church of England, as well as the whole Christian revelation. But the wisdom
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of God was always foolishness with the men no marvel. Then that the great
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mystery of the Gospel should be now also hid from the wise and prudent,
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as well as in the days of old, there should be almost universally denied,
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ridiculed, and exploded is mere frenzy. And that all who dare avow
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it still are branded with the names of madmen and enthusiasts. That is that
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falling away which was to come, that general apostasy of all orders and degrees
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of men, which we even now find to have overspread the earth. Run
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to and fro in the streets of Jerusalem, and see if you can find
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a man, a man that loveth the Lord is God with all his heart,
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and serveth him with all his strength. How does our own land mourn
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that we look no farther under the overflowings of ungodliness the villanies of every kind
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are committed day by day, yea too often with impunity by those who sin
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with a high hand and glory in their shame. Who can reckon up the
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oaths, curses, profaneness, blasphemies, the lying slandering, evil speaking,
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the sabbath breaking, gluttony, drunkenness, revenge, the hortems, adult trees,
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and various uncleanness, the frauds injustice, oppression, exhortation, which overspread
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our land is a flood. And even among those who have kept themselves pure
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from those grosser abominations, how much anger and pride, how much sloth and
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idleness, how much softness and efhemasy, how much luxury and self indulgence,
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how much covetousness and ambition, how much thirst of praise? How much love
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of the world, How much fear of man is to be found? Meanwhile,
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how little of true religion? For where is he that loveth either God
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or his neighbor, as he hath given us commandment? On the one hand,
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are those who have not so much as the form of godliness? On
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the other, those who have the form only there stands open. They are
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the painted supprochler so that in very deed, whosoever were earnestly to behold in
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the public gathering together of the people, I fear those in our churches are
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not to be accepted, might easily perceive the one part were Saducees and the
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other Pharisees, one having almost as little concern about religion as if there were
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no resurrection, either angel nor spirit, and the other making it as a
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mere lifeless form, a dull round of external performances, without either true faith
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or the love of God or joy in the Holy Ghost. Would to God,
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I could accept us of this place. Brethren, my heart's desire and
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prayer to God for you is that ye may be saved from this overflowing of
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ungodliness, that here may its proud waves be stayed. But is it so?
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Indeed, God knoweth yea and our own consciences. It is not ye
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have not kept yourselves pure? Corrupt are we also and abominable? And few
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are there that understand any more, few that worship God in spirit and in
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truth. We too are a generation that set not our hearts aright, and
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whose spirit leaveth not steadfastly. Unto God, y hath appointed us, indeed
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to be the salt of the earth. But if the salt hath lost its
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savor, is thenceforth good for nothing but to be cast out and to be
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trodden under foot of men. And shall I not visit for these things,
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saith the Lord, shall not my soul be avenged in such a nation as
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this. Yea, we know not how soon he may say to the sword,
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sword, go through this land. Yeth given us long space to repent,
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he lets us alone this year also, But he warns and awakens us
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by thunder. His judgments are abroad in the earth, And we have all
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reason to expect, the heaviest of all, even that he should come unto
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us quickly and remove our candlestick out of its place, except we repent and
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do his works first, lest we return to the principles of the Reformation,
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the truth and simplicity of the Gospel. Perhaps we are now resisting the last
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effort of divine grace to save us. Perhaps we have well nigh filled up
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the measure of our iniquities by rejecting the counsel of God against ourselves and casting
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out His messengers. O God, in the midst of wrath, Remember mercy
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be glorified in our reformation, not in our destruction. Let us hear the
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rod and him that appointed it. Now that Thy judgments are abroad in the
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earth, let the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. My brethren, it
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is high time for us to awake out of the sleep, before the great
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trumpet of the Lord be blown and our land become a field of blood.
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What may we speedily see the things that make for our peace before they are
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hid from our eyes. Turn thou us, O good Lord, Let thine
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anger cease from us. O Lord, look down from heaven, behold and
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visit this vine, and cause us to know the time of our visitation.
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Help us, O, God of our salvation, for the glory of thy
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name. Oh, deliver us, and be merciful to our sins for thy
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name's sake, And so we will not go back from thee Oh, let
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us live, and we shall call upon thy name. Turn us again,
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O, Lord, God of Hosts, show the light of thy countenance.
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We shall behole now unto him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all
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that we can ask or think, according to the power that workethin us.
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Unto him be glory in the Church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world
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without end amen. End of Section three,