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32 - Upon our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount, Discourse XII - Sermons on Several Occasions · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Sermon thirty two, upon Our Lord's Sermon on the Mount
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  Speaker 1: Discourse twelve. The text is Matthew seven, verses fifteen to twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing,
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  Speaker 1: but inwardly are ravenous wolves. Ye shall know them by
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  Speaker 1: their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs
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  Speaker 1: of thistles? Even so, every good tree bringeth forth good fruit,
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  Speaker 1: but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good
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  Speaker 1: tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt
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  Speaker 1: tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not
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  Speaker 1: forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire.
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  Speaker 1: Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. It is
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  Speaker 1: scarce possible to express or conceive what multitudes of souls
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  Speaker 1: run on to destruction, because they would not be persuaded
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  Speaker 1: to walk in a narrow way, even though it were
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  Speaker 1: the way to everlasting salvation, And the same thing we
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  Speaker 1: may still observe daily. Such is the folly and madness
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  Speaker 1: of mankind, that thousands of men still rush on in
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  Speaker 1: the way.
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  Speaker 2: To hell only because it is a broad way.
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  Speaker 1: They walk in it themselves because others do, because so
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  Speaker 1: many perish, they will add to the number. Such is
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  Speaker 1: the amazing influence of example over the weak, miserable children
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  Speaker 1: of men. It continually peoples the regions of death and
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  Speaker 1: drowns numberless souls in everlasting perdition. To warn mankind of this,
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  Speaker 1: to guard as many as possible against this spreading contagion,
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  Speaker 1: God has commanded his watchmen to cry aloud and to
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  Speaker 1: show the people the danger they are in. For this end,
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  Speaker 1: he has sent his servants, the prophets in their succeeding generations,
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  Speaker 1: to point out the narrow path and exhort all men
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  Speaker 1: not to be conformed to this world.
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  Speaker 2: But what if the.
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  Speaker 1: Watchmens themselves fall into the snare against which they should
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  Speaker 1: warn others?
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  Speaker 2: What if the.
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  Speaker 1: Prophets prophesied deceits, if they cause the people to err
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  Speaker 1: from the way. What shall be done if they point
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  Speaker 1: out as the way to eternal life, what is in
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  Speaker 1: truth the way to eternal death? And exhort others to
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  Speaker 1: walk as they do themselves in the broad Not the
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  Speaker 1: narrow way? Is this and unheard of? Is it an
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  Speaker 1: uncommon thing? Nay, God knoweth it is not. The instances
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  Speaker 1: of it are almost innumerable.
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  Speaker 2: We may find them in every age and nation.
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  Speaker 1: But how terrible is this when the ambassadors of God
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  Speaker 1: turn agents for the devil, When they who are commissioned
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  Speaker 1: to teach men the way to Heaven do in fact
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  Speaker 1: teach them the way to hell. These are like the
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  Speaker 1: locusts of Egypt, which eat up the residue that had escaped,
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  Speaker 1: that had remained after the hail. They devour even the
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  Speaker 1: residue of men that had escaped that were not destroyed
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  Speaker 1: by ill example. It is not therefore without cause that
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  Speaker 1: are wise and gracious Master so solemnly cautions us against them.
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  Speaker 2: Beware, saith, he of false prophets.
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  Speaker 1: Which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they
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  Speaker 1: are ravening wolves. A caution this of the utmost importance,
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  Speaker 1: that it may be the more effectually sink into our hearts.
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  Speaker 1: Let us inquire first who these false prophets are, secondly
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  Speaker 1: what appearance they put on, and thirdly how we may
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  Speaker 1: know what they really are.
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  Speaker 2: Notwithstanding their fair appearance.
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  Speaker 1: We are first to inquire who these false prophets are.
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  Speaker 1: And this it is needful to do the more diligently,
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  Speaker 1: because these very men have so labored to rest this
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  Speaker 1: scripture to their.
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  Speaker 2: Own, though not only their own destruction.
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  Speaker 1: In order therefore to cut off all dispute, I shall
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  Speaker 1: raise no dust, as the manner of some is. Neither
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  Speaker 1: you use any loose rhetorical exclamations to deceive the hearts
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  Speaker 1: of the simple, but speak rough plain truths such as
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  Speaker 1: none can deny who has either understanding or modesty left,
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  Speaker 1: and such truths as have the closest connection with the
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  Speaker 1: whole tenor of the preceding discourse. Whereas too many have
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  Speaker 1: interpreted these words without any regard to all that went before,
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  Speaker 1: as if they bore no manner of relation to the
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  Speaker 1: sermon in the close of which they stand. By Prophets
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  Speaker 1: here as in many other passages of Scripture, particularly in
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  Speaker 1: the New Testament, are meant not those who foretell things
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  Speaker 1: to come, but those who speak in the name of God,
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  Speaker 1: those men who profess to be sent of God to
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  Speaker 1: teach others the way to heaven. Those are false prophets
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  Speaker 1: who teach a false way to have a way which
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  Speaker 1: does not lead thither, or which comes in the end
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  Speaker 1: to the same point, who do not teach the true.
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  Speaker 1: Every broad way is infallibly a false one. Therefore this
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  Speaker 1: is one plain sure rule. They who teach men to
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  Speaker 1: walk in a broad way, a way that many walk in,
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  Speaker 1: are false prophets. Again, the true way to heaven is
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  Speaker 1: a narrow way. Therefore this is another plain sure rule.
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  Speaker 1: They who do not teach men to walk in a
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  Speaker 1: narrow way, to be singular, are false prophets. To be
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  Speaker 1: more particular, the only true way to heaven is that
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  Speaker 1: pointed out in the preceding sermon. Therefore, they are false
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  Speaker 1: prophets who do not teach men to walk in this way. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the way to heaven pointed out in the preceding sermon
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  Speaker 1: is the way of lowliness, mourning, meekness, and.
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  Speaker 2: Holy desire, love of God and of our.
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  Speaker 1: Neighbor, doing good and suffering evil for Christ's sake. They
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  Speaker 1: are therefore false prophets who teach as the way to
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  Speaker 1: heaven any other way than this. It matters not what
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  Speaker 1: they call that other way. They may call it faith
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  Speaker 1: or good works, or faith and works, or repentance or repentance,
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  Speaker 1: faith and new obedience.
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  Speaker 2: All these are good words.
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  Speaker 1: But if under these or any other terms, whatever they
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  Speaker 1: teach men any way distinct from this, they are properly
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  Speaker 1: false prophets. How much more do they fall under that
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  Speaker 1: condemnation who speak evil of this good way. But above
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  Speaker 1: all they who teach the directly opposite way, the way
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  Speaker 1: of pride, of levity, of passion, of worldly desires, of
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  Speaker 1: loving pleasure more than God, of unkindness to our neighbor,
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  Speaker 1: of unconcern for good works, and suffering no evil, no
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  Speaker 1: persecution for righteousness sake.
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  Speaker 2: If it be asked, why.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever did teach this, or who does teach it as
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  Speaker 1: the way to heaven? I answer ten thousand, wise and
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  Speaker 1: honorable men, even all those of whatever denomination, who encourage
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  Speaker 1: the proud, the trifler, the passionate, the lover of the world,
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  Speaker 1: the man of pleasure, the unjust or unkind, the easy, careless, harmless,
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  Speaker 1: useless creature, the man who suffers no reproach for righteousness sake,
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  Speaker 1: to imagine he is in the way to heaven. These
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  Speaker 1: are false prophets in the highest sense of the word.
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  Speaker 2: These are traitors both to God and man.
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  Speaker 1: These are no other than the first born of Satan,
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  Speaker 1: the eldest sons of Apollyon, the destroyer.
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  Speaker 2: These are far.
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  Speaker 1: Above the rank of ordinary cutthroats, for they murder the
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  Speaker 1: souls of men, they are continually peopling the realms of Knight,
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  Speaker 1: And whenever they follow the poor souls whom they have destroyed,
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  Speaker 1: Hell shall be moved from beneath to meet them at
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  Speaker 1: their coming. But do they come now in their own
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  Speaker 1: shape by no means. If it were so, they could
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  Speaker 1: not destroy. You would take the alarm and flee for
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  Speaker 1: your life. Therefore they put on a quite contrary appearance,
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  Speaker 1: which was the second thing to be considered. They come
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  Speaker 1: to you in sheep's clothing. Although inwardly they are ravening wolves.
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  Speaker 1: They come to you in sheep's clothing, that is, with
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  Speaker 1: an appearance of harmlessness. They come in the most mild,
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  Speaker 1: inoffensive manner, without any mark or token of enmity. Who
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  Speaker 1: can imagine that these quiet creatures would do any hurt
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  Speaker 1: to anyone. Perhaps they may not be so zealous and
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  Speaker 1: active in doing good as one would wish they were. However,
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  Speaker 1: you see no reason to suspect that they have even
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  Speaker 1: the desire.
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  Speaker 2: To do any harm. But this is not all.
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  Speaker 1: They come secondly with an appearance of usefulness. Indeed, to this,
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  Speaker 1: to do good they are particularly called. They are set
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  Speaker 1: apart for this very thing. They are particularly commissioned to
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  Speaker 1: watch over your soul and to train you up to
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  Speaker 1: eternal life. It is their whole business to go about
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  Speaker 1: doing good and healing those that are oppressed of the devil.
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  Speaker 1: You have been always accustomed to look upon them in
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  Speaker 1: this light, as messengers of God sent to bring you
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  Speaker 1: a blessing. They come Thirdly, with an appearance of religion.
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  Speaker 2: All they do is for conscience sake, they assure you.
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  Speaker 1: It is out of mere zeal for God that they
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  Speaker 1: are making God a liar. It is out of pure
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  Speaker 1: concern for religion that they would destroy it root and branch.
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  Speaker 1: All they speak is only from a love of truth
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  Speaker 1: and a fear lest it should suffer. And it may
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  Speaker 1: be from a regard for the Church and a desire
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  Speaker 1: to defend her from all her enemies. Above all, they
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  Speaker 1: come with an appearance of love. They take all these
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  Speaker 1: pains only for your good. They should not trouble themselves
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  Speaker 1: about you, but that they have a kindness for you.
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  Speaker 2: They will make large professions.
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  Speaker 1: Of their good will, of their concern for the danger
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  Speaker 1: you are in, and of their earnest desire to preserve
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  Speaker 1: you from error, from being entangled in new and mischievous doctrines.
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  Speaker 1: They should be very sorry to see one who means
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  Speaker 1: so well hurried into any extreme, perplexed with strange and
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  Speaker 1: unintelligible notions, were deluded into enthusiasm. Therefore, it is that
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  Speaker 1: they advise you to keep still in the plain middleway,
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  Speaker 1: and to beware of being righteous over much, lest you
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  Speaker 1: should destroy yourself. But how may we know what they
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  Speaker 1: really are? Notwithstanding their fair appearance? This was the third
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  Speaker 1: thing into which it was proposed to inquire. Our blessed
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  Speaker 1: lords saw how needful it was for all men to
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  Speaker 1: know false prophets, however disguised. He saw likewise how unable
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  Speaker 1: most men word to deduce a truth through a long
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  Speaker 1: train of consequences. He therefore gives us a short and
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  Speaker 1: plain rule, easy to be understood by men of the
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  Speaker 1: meanest capacities, and easy to be applied upon all occasions.
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  Speaker 1: Ye shall know them by their fruits. Upon all occasions
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  Speaker 1: you may easily apply this rule in order to know
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  Speaker 1: whether any who speak in the name of.
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  Speaker 2: God are false or true prophets.
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  Speaker 1: It is easy to observe first what are the fruits
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  Speaker 1: of their doctrine as to themselves? What effect has it
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  Speaker 1: had upon their lives. Are they holy and unblameable in
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  Speaker 1: all things? What effect has it had upon their hearts?
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  Speaker 1: Does it appear by the general tenor of their conversation
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  Speaker 1: that their tempers are holy, heavenly divine, that the mind
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  Speaker 1: is in them and which was in Christ Jesus, that
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  Speaker 1: they are meek, lowly, patient, lovers of God, and man
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  Speaker 1: zealous of good works, you may easily observe. Secondly, what
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  Speaker 1: are the fruits of their doctrine? As to those that
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  Speaker 1: hear them? In many at least, though not in all,
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  Speaker 1: For the apostles themselves did not convert all they heard them?
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  Speaker 1: Have these the mind that was in Christ? And do
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  Speaker 1: they walk as He also walked? And was it by
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  Speaker 1: hearing these men that they began to do?
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  Speaker 2: So?
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  Speaker 1: Were they inwardly and outwardly wicked till they heard them?
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  Speaker 1: If so, it is a manifest proof that those are
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  Speaker 1: true prophets teachers sent of God. But if it is
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  Speaker 1: not so, if they do not effectually teach either themselves
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  Speaker 1: or others to love and serve God, it is a
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  Speaker 1: manifest proof that they are false prophets, that God hath
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  Speaker 1: not sent them. A hard saying this, how few can
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  Speaker 1: bear it this our Lord was sensible of, and therefore
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  Speaker 1: condescends to prove it at large by several clear and
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  Speaker 1: convincing arguments. Do men says he gather grapes of thorns
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  Speaker 1: or figs of thistles Matthew seven sixteen. Do you expect
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  Speaker 1: that these evil men should bring forth good fruit?
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  Speaker 2: As well?
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  Speaker 1: Might you expect that thorns should bring forth grapes, or
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  Speaker 1: that figs should.
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  Speaker 2: Grow upon thistles.
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  Speaker 1: Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, but a corrupt
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  Speaker 1: tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
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  Speaker 2: Matthew five seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: Every true prophet, every teacher whom I have sent, bringeth
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  Speaker 1: forth a good fruit of holiness. But a false prophet
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  Speaker 1: a teacher whom I have not sent, brings forth only
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  Speaker 1: sin and wickedness. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit.
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  Speaker 1: Neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. A
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  Speaker 1: true prophet, a teacher sent from God, does not bring
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  Speaker 1: forth good fruit, sometimes only, but always not accidentally, but
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  Speaker 1: by a kind of necessity in like manner. A false prophet,
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  Speaker 1: one whom God hath not sent, does not bring forth
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  Speaker 1: evil fruit accidentally or sometimes only, but always and of necessity.
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  Speaker 1: Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewn
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  Speaker 1: down and cast into the fire Verse nineteen. Such infallibly
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  Speaker 1: will be the lot of those prophets who bring not
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  Speaker 1: forth good fruit, who do not save souls from sin,
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  Speaker 1: who do not bring.
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  Speaker 2: Sinners to repentance.
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  Speaker 1: Wherefore, let this stand as an eternal rule. By their fruits,
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  Speaker 1: ye shall know them Matthew seven twenty. They who in
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  Speaker 1: fact bring the proud, passionate, unmerciful lovers of the world
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  Speaker 1: to be lowly, gentle lovers of God and man.
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  Speaker 2: They are true prophets.
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  Speaker 1: They are sent from God, who therefore confirms their word.
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  Speaker 1: On the other hand, they whose hearers, if unrighteous before,
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  Speaker 1: remain unrighteous still, or at least void of any righteousness
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  Speaker 1: which exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees.
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  Speaker 2: They are false prophets. They are not sent of God.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore their word falls to the ground, and without a
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  Speaker 1: miracle of grace, they and their hearers together will fall
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  Speaker 1: into the bottomless pit. Oh, beware of these false prophets,
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  Speaker 1: for though they come in sheep's clothing, yet inwardly they
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  Speaker 1: are ravening wolves. They only destroy devour the flock. They
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  Speaker 1: tear them in pieces. If there is none to help them.
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  Speaker 1: They will not cannot lead you in the way to heaven.
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  Speaker 1: How should they when they know it not themselves. Oh beware,
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  Speaker 1: they do not turn you out of the way and
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  Speaker 1: cause you to lose what you have wrought. But perhaps
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  Speaker 1: you will ask if there is such danger in hearing them?
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  Speaker 2: Ought I to hear them at all?
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  Speaker 1: It is a weighty question such as deserves the deepest consideration,
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  Speaker 1: and ought not to be answered, but upon the calmest thought,
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  Speaker 1: the most deliberate reflection. For many years I have been
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  Speaker 1: almost afraid to speak at all concerning it, being unable
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  Speaker 1: to determine one way or the other, or to give
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  Speaker 1: any judgment upon it. Many reasons there are which readily
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  Speaker 1: occur and incline me to say, hear them not.
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  Speaker 2: And yet what our Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Speaks concerning the false prophets of his own times seems
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  Speaker 1: to imply the contrary. Then spake Jesus unto the multitude
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  Speaker 1: and to his disciples, saying, the scribes and the Pharisees
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  Speaker 1: sit in Moses seat, are the ordinary stated teachers in
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  Speaker 1: your church. All Therefore, whatsoever they bid you observe, that
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  Speaker 1: observe and do, but do not y after their works.
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  Speaker 2: For they say and do not.
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  Speaker 1: Now that these were false prophets in the highest sense,
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  Speaker 1: our Lord has shown during the whole course of his ministry,
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  Speaker 1: as indeed he does in those very.
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  Speaker 2: Words they say and do not.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore, by their fruits, his disciples could not but know them,
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  Speaker 1: seeing they were open to the view of all men.
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  Speaker 1: Accordingly he warns them again and again to be of
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  Speaker 1: these false prophets.
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  Speaker 2: And yet he does not forbid them to hear even these.
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  Speaker 1: Nay, he in effect commands them so to do in
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  Speaker 1: those words all Therefore, whatsoever they bid you observe, that
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  Speaker 1: observe and do, for unless they heard them, they could
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  Speaker 1: not know, much less observed whatsoever they bade them do. Here, then,
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  Speaker 1: our Lord himself gives a plain direction both to his
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  Speaker 1: apostles and the whole multitude, in some circumstances to hear
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  Speaker 1: even false prophets known and acknowledged so to be. But
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  Speaker 1: perhaps it will be said he only directed to hear
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  Speaker 1: them when they read the scriptures to the congregation. I
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  Speaker 1: answer at the same time that they thus read the scripture.
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  Speaker 2: They generally expounded it too.
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  Speaker 1: And here is no kind of intimation that they were
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  Speaker 1: to hear the one and not the other. Also, nay,
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  Speaker 1: the very terms all things, whatsoever they bid you observe,
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  Speaker 1: exclude any such limitation. Again unto them, unto false prophets.
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  Speaker 1: Undeniably such is frequently committed, oh grief to speak. For
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  Speaker 1: surely these things ought not so to be the administration
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  Speaker 1: of the sacrament. Also to direct men. Therefore, not to
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  Speaker 1: hear them would be in effect to cut them off
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  Speaker 1: from the ordinances of God. But this we dare not do,
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  Speaker 1: considering the validity of the ordinance doth not depend upon
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  Speaker 1: the goodness of Him that administers, but on the faithfulness
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  Speaker 1: of Him that ordained it, who will and duth meet
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  Speaker 1: us in his appointed ways. Therefore, on this account, likewise
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  Speaker 1: I scruple to say here not even the false prophets,
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  Speaker 1: even by these who are under a curse themselves, God
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  Speaker 1: can and douff give His blessing.
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  Speaker 2: For the bread which they break.
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  Speaker 1: We have experimentally known to be the communion of the.
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  Speaker 2: Body of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And the cup which God blessed even by their unhallowed lips,
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  Speaker 1: was to us the communion of the blood of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: All therefore which I can say, is this in any
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  Speaker 1: particular case. Wait upon God by humble and earnest prayer,
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  Speaker 1: and then act according to the best light you have.
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  Speaker 1: Act according to what you are persuaded upon. The whole
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  Speaker 1: will be most for your spiritual advantage. Take great care
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  Speaker 1: that you do not judge rashly, that you do not
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  Speaker 1: lightly think any to be false prophets. And when you
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  Speaker 1: have full proof, see that no anger or contempt have
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  Speaker 1: any place in your heart. After this, in the presence
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  Speaker 1: and in the fear of God, determine for yourself. I
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  Speaker 1: can only say, if by experience you find that the
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  Speaker 1: hearing them hurts your soul.
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  Speaker 2: Then hear them not.
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  Speaker 1: Then quietly refrain and hear those that profit you. If
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, you find it does not hurt
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  Speaker 1: your soul, you may hear them still.
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  Speaker 2: Only take heed how.
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  Speaker 1: You hear, Beware of them and of their doctrine. Here
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  Speaker 1: with fear and trembling, lest you should be deceived and
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  Speaker 1: given up like them to a strong delusion, as they
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  Speaker 1: continually mingle truth and lies. How easily may you take
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  Speaker 1: in both together Here with fervent and continual prayer to
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  Speaker 1: Him who alone teacheth man wisdom, and see that you
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  Speaker 1: bring whatever you hear to the law and to the testimony.
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  Speaker 1: Receive nothing untried, nothing till it is weighed in the
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  Speaker 1: balance of the sanctuary. Believe nothing they say unless it
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  Speaker 1: is clearly confirmed by passages of holy writ. Holy reject
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  Speaker 1: whatsoever differs therefrom whatever is not confirmed thereby, and in
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  Speaker 1: particular reject with the utmost abhorrence whatsoever is described as
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  Speaker 1: the way of salvation that is either different from or
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  Speaker 1: short of the way our Lord has marked out in
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  Speaker 1: the foregoing discourse. I cannot conclude without addressing a few
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  Speaker 1: plain words to those of whom we have now been speaking.
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  Speaker 2: Oh ye false.
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  Speaker 1: Prophets, oh ye dry bones, hear ye for once the
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  Speaker 1: word of the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: How long will ye lie in the name of.
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  Speaker 1: God saying God hath spoken and God.
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  Speaker 2: Hath not spoken by ye?
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  Speaker 1: How long will ye pervert the right ways of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: putting darkness for light and light for darkness. How long
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  Speaker 1: will ye teach the way of death and call it
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  Speaker 1: the way of life? How long will ye deliver to
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  Speaker 1: Satan the souls whom ye profess to bring unto God?
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  Speaker 1: War unto you, ye blind leaders of the blind, For
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  Speaker 1: ye shut the Kingdom of Heaven against men. Ye neither
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  Speaker 1: go in yourselves neither suffer ye, them that are entering
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  Speaker 1: to go in, Them that would strive to enter in
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  Speaker 1: at the straight gate, you call back unto the broad way,
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  Speaker 1: them that have scarce gone one step in the ways
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  Speaker 1: of God. You devilishly caution against going too far. Them
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  Speaker 1: that just begin to hunger and thirst after righteousness, you
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  Speaker 1: warn not to be righteous over much. Thus you cause
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  Speaker 1: them to stumble at the very threshold yea, to fall
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  Speaker 1: and rise no more.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wherefore do ye this? What prophet? Is there in
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  Speaker 2: their blood?
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  Speaker 1: When they go down to the pit, miserable prophet to you,
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  Speaker 1: they shall perish in their iniquity, But their blood will
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  Speaker 1: God require at your hands? Where are your eyes? Where
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  Speaker 1: is your understanding? Have ye deceived others till you have
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  Speaker 1: deceived yourselves?
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  Speaker 2: Also?
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  Speaker 1: Who hath required this at your hands? To teach a
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  Speaker 1: way which ye never knew? Are you given up to
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  Speaker 1: so strong a delusion that ye not only teach but
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  Speaker 1: believe a lie? And can you possibly believe that God
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  Speaker 1: hath sent you, that ye are his messengers? Nay, if
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  Speaker 1: the Lord had sent you, the work of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: would prosper in your hand, as the Lord liveth If
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  Speaker 1: ye were messengers of God, he would confirm the word
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  Speaker 1: of his messengers. But the work of the Lord doth
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  Speaker 1: not prosper in your hand. You bring no sinners to repentance.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord doth not confirm your word, for you save
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  Speaker 1: no souls from death. How can you possibly evade the
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  Speaker 1: force of our Lord's words, so full, so strong, so express?
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  Speaker 1: How can ye evade knowing yourselves by your fruits, evil
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  Speaker 1: fruits of evil trees? And how should it be otherwise
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  Speaker 1: do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles.
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  Speaker 1: Take this to yourselves, ye, to whom it belongs, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: ye bearn trees? Why cumber ye the ground? Every good
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  Speaker 1: tree bringeth forth good fruit? See not that here is
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  Speaker 1: no exception. Take knowledge, then ye are not good trees,
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  Speaker 1: For ye do not bring forth good fruit. But a
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  Speaker 1: corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. And so heav ye done.
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  Speaker 1: From the beginning. Your speaking as from God has only
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  Speaker 1: confirmed them that heard you in the tempers, if not
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  Speaker 1: the works of the devil, Oh, take warning of him
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  Speaker 1: in whose name he speak Before the sentence he hath pronounced.
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  Speaker 2: Take place.
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  Speaker 1: Every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewn
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  Speaker 1: down and cast into the fire, My dear brethren, harden
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  Speaker 1: not your hearts. You have too long shut your eyes
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  Speaker 1: against the light. Open them now, before it is too late,
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  Speaker 1: before you are cast into outer darkness. Let not any
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  Speaker 1: temporal consideration weigh with you, For eternity is at stake.
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  Speaker 2: Ye have run before ye were sent. Oh, go not farther.
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  Speaker 1: Do not persist to damn yourselves and them that hear you.
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  Speaker 2: You have no fruit of your labors.
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  Speaker 1: And why is this even because the Lord is not
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  Speaker 1: with you? But can you go this warfare at your
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  Speaker 1: own cost?
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  Speaker 2: It cannot be.
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  Speaker 1: Then, humble yourselves before him, cry unto him out of
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  Speaker 1: the dust, that he may first quicken thy soul. Give
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  Speaker 1: THEE the faith that worketh by love, that is lowly
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  Speaker 1: and meek, pure and merciful, zealous of good works, rejoicing
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  Speaker 1: in tribulation, in reproach, in distress, in persecution for righteousness sake.
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  Speaker 1: So shall the spirit of glory and of Christ rest
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  Speaker 1: upon THEE, and it shall appear that God hath sent THEE.
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  Speaker 1: So shalt thou indeed do the work of an evangelist,
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  Speaker 1: and make full proof of thy ministry. So shall the
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  Speaker 1: word of God in thy mouth be in hammer that
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  Speaker 1: breaketh the rocks in pieces. It shall then be known
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  Speaker 1: by thy fruits that thou art a prophet of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: even by the children whom God hath given thee. And
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  Speaker 1: having turned many to righteousness, thou shalt shine as the
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  Speaker 1: stars forever and ever. The end of Sermon thirty two