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07 - The Way to the Kingdom - Sermons on Several Occasions · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: The way to the Kingdom. The Kingdom of God is
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  Speaker 1: at hand. Repent ye and believe the Gospel, Mark chapter one,
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  Speaker 1: verse fifteen. These words naturally lead us to consider first
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  Speaker 1: the nature of true religion here termed by our Lord
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  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God, which saith he is at hand,
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  Speaker 1: and secondly the way thereto, which he points out in
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  Speaker 1: those words repent ye and believe the Gospel. We are
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  Speaker 1: first to consider the nature of true religion here termed
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  Speaker 1: by our Lord the Kingdom of God, the same expression
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  Speaker 1: the Great Apostle uses in his Epistle to the Romans,
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  Speaker 1: where he likewise explains his Lord's words, saying, the Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of God is not meet and drink, but righteousness and
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  Speaker 1: peace and joy in the Holy Ghost Romans fourteen, verse seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: The Kingdom of God, or true religion is not meet
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  Speaker 1: and drink. Is well known that not only the unconverted Jews,
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  Speaker 1: but great numbers of those who had received the faith
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  Speaker 1: of Christ were notwithstanding zealous of the Law Acts twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: verse twenty, even the ceremonial Law of Moses whatsoever. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: they found written therein either concerning meat and drink offerings
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  Speaker 1: or the distinction between clean and unclean meats. They not
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  Speaker 1: only observed themselves, but vehemently pressed the same, even on
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  Speaker 1: those among the gentiles or heathens who were turned to God, YEA,
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  Speaker 1: to such a degree that some of them taught wheresoever
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  Speaker 1: they came among them. Except ye be circumcised and keep
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  Speaker 1: the law, the whole ritual law, ye cannot be saved
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  Speaker 1: Acts fifteen, Verses one and twenty four. In opposition to these,
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  Speaker 1: the Apostle declares, both here and in many other places,
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  Speaker 1: that true religion does not consist in meat and drink,
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  Speaker 1: or in any ritual observances, nor indeed in any outward
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  Speaker 1: things whatever, in anything exterior to the heart, the whole
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  Speaker 1: substance thereof lying in righteousness, peace, and joy, in the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost, not in any outward thing, such as forms
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  Speaker 1: or ceremonies, even of the most excellent kind, supposing these
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  Speaker 1: to be ever so decent and significant, ever so expressive
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  Speaker 1: of inward things, supposing them ever so helpful, not only
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  Speaker 1: to the vulgar, whose thought reaches little farther than their sight,
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  Speaker 1: but even to men of understanding, men of strong capacities,
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  Speaker 1: as doubtless they may sometimes be, YEA, supposing them as
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  Speaker 1: in the case of the Jews, to be appointed by
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  Speaker 1: God himself. Yet even during the period of time wherein
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  Speaker 1: that appointment remains in force, true religion does not principally
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  Speaker 1: consist therein, nay, strictly speaking, not at all. How much
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  Speaker 1: more must this hold concerning such rights and forms as
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  Speaker 1: are only of human appointment. The religion of Christ rises
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  Speaker 1: infinitely higher and lies immensely deeper than all these. These
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  Speaker 1: are good in their place, just so far as they
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  Speaker 1: are in fact subservient to true religion. And it were
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  Speaker 1: a superstition to object against them while they are applied
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  Speaker 1: only as occasional helps to human weakness. But let no
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  Speaker 1: man carry them farther, Let no man dream that they
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  Speaker 1: have any intrinsic worth, or that religion cannot subsist without them.
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  Speaker 1: This were to make them an abomination to the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: The nature of religion is so far from consisting in
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  Speaker 1: these in forms of worship or rites and ceremonies, that
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  Speaker 1: it does not properly consist in any outward actions of
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  Speaker 1: what kind soever. It is true a man cannot have
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  Speaker 1: any religion who is guilty of vicious immoral actions, or
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  Speaker 1: who does to others what he would not they should
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  Speaker 1: do to him if he were in the same circumstance.
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  Speaker 1: And it is also true that he can have no
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  Speaker 1: real religion. Who knows to do good and doth it not.
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  Speaker 1: Yet may a man both abstain from outward evil and
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  Speaker 1: do good and still have no religion. Yea two persons
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  Speaker 1: may do the same outward work, suppose feeding the hungry
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  Speaker 1: or clothing the naked, And in the meantime, one of
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  Speaker 1: these may be truly religious, and the other have no
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  Speaker 1: religion at all, For the one may act from the
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  Speaker 1: love of God, and the other from the love of praise.
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  Speaker 1: So manifest it is that although true religion naturally leads
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  Speaker 1: to every good work and work, yet the real nature
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  Speaker 1: thereof lies deeper still, even in the hidden man of
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  Speaker 1: the heart. I say of the heart. For neither does
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  Speaker 1: religion consist orthodoxy or right opinions, which, although they are
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  Speaker 1: not properly outward things, are not in the heart, but
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  Speaker 1: the understanding. A man may be orthodox in every point.
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  Speaker 1: He may not only espouse right opinions, but zealously defend
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  Speaker 1: them against all opposers. He may think us concerning the
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  Speaker 1: incarnation of our Lord, concerning the ever Blessed Trinity, and
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  Speaker 1: every other doctrine contained in the oracles of God. He
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  Speaker 1: may assent to all the three creeds that called the Apostles,
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  Speaker 1: the Nicene, and the Athenasian. And yet it is possible
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  Speaker 1: he may have no religion at all, no more than
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  Speaker 1: a Jew, Turk or pagan. He may be almost as
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  Speaker 1: orthodox as the devil, though indeed not altogether, for every
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  Speaker 1: man errs in something whereas we can't well conceive him
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  Speaker 1: to hold any erroneous opinion, and may all the while
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  Speaker 1: be as great a stranger as he to the religion
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  Speaker 1: of the heart. This alone is religion, truly so called.
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  Speaker 1: This alone is in the sight of God of great price.
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  Speaker 1: The Apostle sums it all up in three particulars, righteousness
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  Speaker 1: and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost, and first righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: We cannot be at a loss concerning them if we
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  Speaker 1: remember the words of our Lord describing the two grand
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  Speaker 1: branches thereof on which hang all the law and the prophets.
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  Speaker 1: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
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  Speaker 1: and with all thy mind, and with all thy soul,
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  Speaker 1: and with all thy strength. This is the first and
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  Speaker 1: great commandment. Mark Chapter twelve. Verse thirty. The first and
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  Speaker 1: great branch of Christian righteousness. Thou shalt delight thyself in
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, thy God. Thou shalt seek and find all
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  Speaker 1: happiness in Him. He shall be thy shield and thy
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  Speaker 1: exceeding great reward in time and in eternity. All thy
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  Speaker 1: bones shall say, Whom have I in heaven but THEE?
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  Speaker 1: And there is none upon earth that I desire Beside Thee.
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  Speaker 1: Thou shalt hear and fulfill his word. Who saith my
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  Speaker 1: son give me thy heart, and having given him thy
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  Speaker 1: heart thy inmost soul, to reign there without arrival, Thou
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  Speaker 1: mayst well cry out in the fullness of thy heart.
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  Speaker 1: I will love THEE, O Lord my strength. The Lord
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  Speaker 1: is my strong rock and my defense, my Savior, my God,
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  Speaker 1: and my might in whom I will trust my buckler,
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  Speaker 1: the horn also of my salvation and my refuge. And
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  Speaker 1: the second commandment is like unto this. The second great
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  Speaker 1: branch of Christian righteousness is closely and inseparably connected therewith
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  Speaker 1: even Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Thou shalt love,
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  Speaker 1: Thou shalt embrace with the most tender good will, the
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  Speaker 1: most earnest and cordial affection, the most inflamed desires of
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  Speaker 1: preventing or removing all evil, and of procuring for him
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  Speaker 1: every possible good, thy neighbor, that is, not only thy friend,
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  Speaker 1: thy kinsman, or thy acquaintance, not only the virtuous, the
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  Speaker 1: friendly him that loves thee that prevents or returns thy kindness,
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  Speaker 1: but every child of man, every human creature, every soul
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  Speaker 1: which God hath made, Not accepting him whom thou never
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  Speaker 1: hast seen in the flesh, whom thou knowest, not either
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  Speaker 1: by face or name, Not accepting him whom thou knowest
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  Speaker 1: to be evil and unthankful, Him that still, despitefully uses
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  Speaker 1: and persecutes thee Him, thou shalt love as thyself, with
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  Speaker 1: the same and variable thirst after his happiness in every kind,
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  Speaker 1: the same unwearied care to screen him from whatever might
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  Speaker 1: grieve or hurt either his soul or body. Now is
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  Speaker 1: not this love the fulfilling of the law, the sum
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  Speaker 1: of all Christian righteousness, of all inward righteousness, For it
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  Speaker 1: necessarily implies bowels of mercy, humbleness of mind. Seeing love
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  Speaker 1: is not puffed up gentleness, meekness, long suffering, For love
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  Speaker 1: is not provoked, but believeth, hopeth, endureth all things, and
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  Speaker 1: of all outward righteousness. For love worketh no evil to
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  Speaker 1: his neighbor, either by word or deed. It cannot willingly
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  Speaker 1: hurt or grieve anyone. And it is zealous of good works.
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  Speaker 1: Every lover of mankind, as he hath opportunity, doth good
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  Speaker 1: unto all men, being without partiality and without hypocrisy, full
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  Speaker 1: of mercy and good fruits. But true religion, or a
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  Speaker 1: heart right toward God and Man, implies happiness as well
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  Speaker 1: as holiness, for it is not only righteousness, but also
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  Speaker 1: peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. What peace the
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  Speaker 1: peace of God, which God only can give and the
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  Speaker 1: world cannot take away, The peace which passeth all understanding,
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  Speaker 1: all barely rational conception, being a supernatural sensation, a divine
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  Speaker 1: taste of the powers of the world to come, such
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  Speaker 1: as the natural man knoweth not, how why soever, in
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  Speaker 1: the things of this world, nor indeed can he know
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  Speaker 1: it in his present state, because it is spiritually discerned.
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  Speaker 1: It is a peace that banishes all doubt, all painful uncertainty,
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of God bearing witness with the spe spirit
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  Speaker 1: of a Christian that he is a child of God.
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  Speaker 1: And it banishes fear, all such fear as hath torment,
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  Speaker 1: the fear of the wrath of God, the fear of hell,
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  Speaker 1: the fear of the devil, and in particular the fear
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  Speaker 1: of death. He that hath the peace of God, desiring
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  Speaker 1: if it were the will of God, to depart and
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  Speaker 1: to be with Christ. With this peace of God. Wherever
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  Speaker 1: it is fixed in the soul, there is also joy
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  Speaker 1: in the Holy Ghost, joy wrought in the heart by
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost, by the ever blessed Spirit of God.
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  Speaker 1: He it is that worketh in us, that calm, humble
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  Speaker 1: rejoicing in God through Christ Jesus, by whom we have
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  Speaker 1: now received the Atonement Catalagan, the reconciliation with God, and
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  Speaker 1: that enables us boldly to confirm the truth of the
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  Speaker 1: Royal Psalmist's declaration. Blessed is the man, or rather happy,
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  Speaker 1: whose unrighteousness is forgiven and whose sin is covered. He
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  Speaker 1: it is that in inspires the Christian soul with that
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  Speaker 1: even solid joy which arises from the testimony of the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit that he is a child of God, and that
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  Speaker 1: gives him to rejoice with joy unspeakable in hope of
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  Speaker 1: the glory of God. Hope, both of the glorious image
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  Speaker 1: of God, which is in part and shall be fully
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  Speaker 1: revealed in Him, and of that crown of Glory which
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  Speaker 1: fadeth not away, reserved in Heaven for him. This holiness
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  Speaker 1: and happiness joined in one are sometimes styled in the
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  Speaker 1: inspired writings the Kingdom of God as by Our Lord
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  Speaker 1: in the text, and sometimes the Kingdom of Heaven. It
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  Speaker 1: is termed the Kingdom of God because it is the
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  Speaker 1: immediate fruit of God's reigning in the soul. So soon
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  Speaker 1: as ever He takes unto himself his mighty power and
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  Speaker 1: sets up his throne in our hearts, they are instantly
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  Speaker 1: filled with this righteousness and peace and joy in the
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  Speaker 1: Holy ghost. It is called the Kingdom of Heaven because
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  Speaker 1: it is in a degree Heaven opened in the soul.
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  Speaker 1: For whosoever they are are that experience this, they can
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  Speaker 1: ever before angels and men, everlasting life is one glory
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  Speaker 1: is on earth begun according to the constant tenor of scripture,
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  Speaker 1: which everywhere bears record, God hath given unto us eternal life,
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  Speaker 1: And this life is in his son, He that hath
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  Speaker 1: the Son reigning in his heart, hath life, even life everlasting.
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  Speaker 1: First John five, verses eleven and twelve. For this is
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  Speaker 1: life eternal, to know THEE, the only true God, in
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent John seventeen, verse three.
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  Speaker 1: And they to whom this is given may confidently address God,
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  Speaker 1: though they were in the midst of a fiery furnace.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord safe shielded by Thy power, thee Son of
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  Speaker 1: God Jehovah, we adore in form of man descending to
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  Speaker 1: appear to thee be ceaseless. Hallelujahs given praise as in
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  Speaker 1: heaven thy throne we offer here, for where Thy presence
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  Speaker 1: is displayed is heaven, and this Kingdom of God or
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  Speaker 1: of Heaven, is at hand. As these words were originally spoken,
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  Speaker 1: they implied that the time was then fulfilled God being
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  Speaker 1: made manifest in the flesh, when he would set up
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  Speaker 1: his kingdom among men and reign in the hearts of
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  Speaker 1: his people. It is not the time now fulfilled. For
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  Speaker 1: lo saith, he I am with you always, you who
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  Speaker 1: preach remission of sins in My name, even under the
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  Speaker 1: end of the world. Matthew twenty eight, verse twenty Wheersoever,
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  Speaker 1: therefore the Gospel of Christ is preached this his Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: is nigh at hand. It is not far from every
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  Speaker 1: one of you. Ye may this hour enter therein too.
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  Speaker 1: If so be ye hearken to his voice. Repent ye
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  Speaker 1: and believe the Gospel. This is the way. Walk ye
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  Speaker 1: in it, and first repent, that is, know yourselves. This
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  Speaker 1: is the first repentance, previous to faith, even conviction or
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  Speaker 1: self knowledge. Awake, then thou that sleepest, know thyself to
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  Speaker 1: be a sinner in what manner of sinner thou art
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  Speaker 1: know that corruption of thy inmost nature, whereby thou art
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  Speaker 1: very far gone from original righteousness, whereby the flesh lusteth
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  Speaker 1: always contrary to the spirit, through that carnal mind which
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  Speaker 1: is enmity against God, which is not subject to the
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  Speaker 1: law of God. Neither in deed can be know that
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  Speaker 1: thou art corrupted in every power, in every faculty of
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  Speaker 1: thy soul, that thou art totally corrupted in every one
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  Speaker 1: of these, all the foundations being out of course, the
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  Speaker 1: eyes of thine understanding are darkened, so that they cannot
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  Speaker 1: discern God or the things of God. The clouds of
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  Speaker 1: ignorance and error rest upon thee and cover THEE with
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  Speaker 1: the shadow of death. Thou knowest nothing Yet as thou
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  Speaker 1: oughtest to know, neither God nor the world, nor thyself,
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  Speaker 1: thy will is no longer the will of God, but
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  Speaker 1: is utterly perverse and distorted, a verse from all good,
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  Speaker 1: from all which God loves, and prone to all evil,
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  Speaker 1: to every abomination which God hateth. Thy affections are alienated
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  Speaker 1: from God and scattered abroad over all the earth. All
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  Speaker 1: thy passions, both thy desires and aversions, thy joys and sorrows,
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  Speaker 1: thy hopes and fears, are out of frame, are either
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  Speaker 1: undue in their degree, or placed on undue objects, so
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  Speaker 1: that there is no soundness in thy soul. But from
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  Speaker 1: the crown of the head to the soul of the foot,
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  Speaker 1: to use the strong expression of the prophet, there are
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  Speaker 1: only wounds and bruises and putrefying sores. Such is the
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  Speaker 1: inbred corruption of the heart of thy very inmost nature.
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  Speaker 1: And what manner of branches canst thou expect to grow
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  Speaker 1: from such an evil root? Hence springs unbelief. Ever, departing
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  Speaker 1: from the living God saying who is the Lord? That
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  Speaker 1: I should serve him? Tush thou God carest not for it?
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  Speaker 1: Hence independence affecting to be like the most high hence
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  Speaker 1: pride in all its forms, teaching THEE to say, I
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  Speaker 1: am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing.
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  Speaker 1: From this evil fountain flow forth the bitter streams of vanity,
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  Speaker 1: thirst of praise, ambition, coveteousness, the lust of the flesh,
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  Speaker 1: the lust of the eye, and the pride of life.
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  Speaker 1: From this arise anger, hatred, malice, revenge, envy, jealousy, evil surmisings.
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  Speaker 1: From this all the foolish and hurtful lusts that now
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  Speaker 1: pierce THEE through with many sorrows, and if not timely prevented,
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  Speaker 1: will at length drown thy soul in everlasting perdition. And
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  Speaker 1: what fruits can grow on such branches as these, only
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  Speaker 1: such as are bitter and evil, Continually of pride, cometh, contention, vain, boasting,
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  Speaker 1: seeking and receiving praise of men, and so robbing God
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  Speaker 1: of that glory which he cannot give unto another. Of
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  Speaker 1: the lust of the flesh, come gluttony or drunkenness, luxury
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  Speaker 1: or sensuality, fornication, uncleanness, variously defiling that body which was
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  Speaker 1: designed for a temple of the Holy Ghost, of unbelief,
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  Speaker 1: of every evil word and work. But the time would fail,
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  Speaker 1: shouldst thou reckon up all all the idle words that
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  Speaker 1: thou hast spoken, provoking the most high grieving the Holy
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  Speaker 1: One of Israel, all the evil works thou hast done,
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  Speaker 1: either wholly evil in themselves, or at least not done
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  Speaker 1: to the glory of God. For thy actual sins are
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  Speaker 1: more than thou art able to express, more than the
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  Speaker 1: hairs of thy head. Who can number the sands of
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  Speaker 1: the sea, or the drops of rain, or thy iniquities.
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  Speaker 1: And knowest thou not that the wages of sin is death, death,
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  Speaker 1: not only temporal, but eternal. The soul that sinneth, it
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  Speaker 1: shall die. For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it,
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  Speaker 1: it shall die, the second death. This is the sentence
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  Speaker 1: to be punished with never ending death, with everlasting destruction,
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  Speaker 1: from the presence of the Lord and from the glory
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  Speaker 1: of his power. Knowest thou not that every sinner innakos
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  Speaker 1: estai ase ten ginan two pyrus not properly is in
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  Speaker 1: danger of hell fire, is far too weak, but rather
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  Speaker 1: is under the sentence of hell fire, doomed, already just
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  Speaker 1: dragging to execution. Thou art guilty of everlasting death. It
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  Speaker 1: is the just reward of thy inward and outward wickedness.
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  Speaker 1: It is just that the sentence should now take place.
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  Speaker 1: Dost thou see, dost thou feel this? Art Thou thoroughly
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  Speaker 1: convinced that thou deservest God's wrath and everlasting damnation. Would
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  Speaker 1: God do THEE no wrong if He now commanded the
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  Speaker 1: earth to open and swallow THEE up, If thou wert
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  Speaker 1: now to go down quick into the pit, into the
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  Speaker 1: fire that never shall be quenched. If God hath given
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  Speaker 1: THEE truly to repent, Thou hast a deep sense that
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  Speaker 1: these things are so, and that it is of His
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  Speaker 1: mere mercy. Thou art not consumed swept away from the
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  Speaker 1: face of the earth. And what wilt thou do to
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  Speaker 1: appease the wrath of God to atone for all thy sins,
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  Speaker 1: and to escape the punishment that thou hast so justly deserved?
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  Speaker 1: Alas thou canst do nothing, nothing that will in any
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  Speaker 1: wise make amends to God for one evil work or
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  Speaker 1: word or thought. If thou couldst now do all things well,
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  Speaker 1: If from this very hour till thy soul should return
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  Speaker 1: to God, thou couldst perform perfect, uninterrupted obedience, even this
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  Speaker 1: would not atone for what is past. The not increasing
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  Speaker 1: thy debt would not discharge it. It would still remain
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  Speaker 1: as great as ever yea, the present and future obedience
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  Speaker 1: of all the men upon earth and all the angels
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  Speaker 1: in heaven would never make satisfaction to the justice of
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  Speaker 1: God for one's single sin. How vain, then was the
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  Speaker 1: thought of atoning for thy own sins by anything thou
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  Speaker 1: couldst do. It costeth far more to redeem one's soul
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  Speaker 1: than all mankind is able to pay. So that were
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  Speaker 1: there no other help for a guilty sinner, without doubt,
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  Speaker 1: he must have perished everlastingly. But suppose perfect obedience for
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  Speaker 1: the time to come could atone for the sins that
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  Speaker 1: are past. This would profit thee nothing, for thou art
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  Speaker 1: not able to perform it, No, not in any one point.
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  Speaker 1: Begin now make the trial shake off that outward sin
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  Speaker 1: that so easily besetteth THEE. Thou canst not, How then,
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  Speaker 1: wilt thou change thy life from all evil to all good? Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: it is impossible to be done unless first thy heart
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  Speaker 1: be changed. For so long as the tree remains evil,
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  Speaker 1: it cannot bring forth good fruit. But art thou able
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  Speaker 1: to change thy own heart, from all sin to all holiness,
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  Speaker 1: to quicken a soul that is dead and sin, dead
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  Speaker 1: to God and alive only to the world, no more
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  Speaker 1: than thou art able to quicken a dead body, to
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  Speaker 1: raise to life him that lieth in the grave. Yea
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  Speaker 1: thou art not able to quicken thy soul in any degree,
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  Speaker 1: no more than to give any degree of life to
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  Speaker 1: the dead body. Thou canst do nothing more or less
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  Speaker 1: in this matter. Thou art utterly without strength to be
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  Speaker 1: deeply sensible of this, how helpless thou art, as well
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  Speaker 1: as how guilty and how sinful this is that repentance
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  Speaker 1: not to be repented of which is the forerunner of
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  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God. If to this lively conviction of
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  Speaker 1: thy inward and outward sins, of thy utter guiltiness and helplessness,
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  Speaker 1: there be added suitable affections sorrow of the heart for
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  Speaker 1: having despised thy own mercies, remorse and self condemnation, having
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  Speaker 1: thy mouth stopped, shame to lift up thine eyes to heaven,
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  Speaker 1: fear of the wrath of God abiding on thee of
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  Speaker 1: His curse hanging over thy head, and of the fiery
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  Speaker 1: indignation ready to devour those who forget God and obey
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  Speaker 1: not our Lord Jesus Christ, earnest desire to escape from
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  Speaker 1: that indignation, to cease from evil and learn to do well.
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  Speaker 1: Then I say unto thee in the name of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: thou art not far from the Kingdom of God one
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  Speaker 1: step more, and thou shalt enter in thou dost repent.
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  Speaker 1: Now believe the Gospel, the gospel that is good tidings,
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  Speaker 1: good news for guilty helpless sinners. In the largest sense
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  Speaker 1: of the word means the whole revelation made to men
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  Speaker 1: by Jesus Christ, and sometimes the whole account of what
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  Speaker 1: our Lord did and suffered while he tabernacled among men.
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  Speaker 1: The substance of all is Jesus Christ came into the
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  Speaker 1: world to save sinners. Or God so loved the world
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  Speaker 1: that he gave his only begotten son to the end
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  Speaker 1: we might not perish, but have everlasting life. Or he
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  Speaker 1: was bruised for our transgressions, He was wounded for our iniquities.
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  Speaker 1: The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with
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  Speaker 1: his stripes we are healed. Believe this, and the Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of God is thine. By faith, Thou attainest the promise
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  Speaker 1: He pardoneth and absolveth all that truly repent and unfeignedly
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  Speaker 1: believe His Holy Gospel. As soon as ever God hath
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  Speaker 1: spoken to thy heart, be of good cheer. Thy sins
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  Speaker 1: are forgiven thee his Kingdom comes. Thou hast righteousness and
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  Speaker 1: peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. Only beware thou
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  Speaker 1: do not deceive thy own soul. With regard to the
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  Speaker 1: nature of this faith, it is not, as some have
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  Speaker 1: fondly conceive, a bare assent to the truth of the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: of the articles of our creed, or of all that
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  Speaker 1: is contained in the Old and New Testament. The devils
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  Speaker 1: believe this as well as I or thou, and yet
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  Speaker 1: they are devil still. But it is over and above
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  Speaker 1: this a sure trust in the mercy of God through
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. It is a confidence in a pardoning God.
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  Speaker 1: It is a divine evidence or conviction that God was
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  Speaker 1: in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not imputing to
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  Speaker 1: them their former trespasses. And in particular that the Son
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  Speaker 1: of God hath loved me and given himself for me,
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  Speaker 1: and that I even I am now reconciled to God
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  Speaker 1: by the blood of the Cross. Dost thou thus believe,
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  Speaker 1: then the peace of God is in thy heart, and
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  Speaker 1: sorrow and sighing flee away. Thou art no longer in
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  Speaker 1: doubt of the love of God. It is clear as
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  Speaker 1: the noonday sun. Thou criest out my song shall be
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  Speaker 1: always of the loving kindness of the Lord. With my
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  Speaker 1: mouth will I ever be telling of Thy truth from
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  Speaker 1: one generation to another. Thou art no longer afraid of
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  Speaker 1: hell or death, or him that had once the power
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  Speaker 1: of death the devil, no nor painfully afraid of God himself,
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  Speaker 1: Only that thou hast a tender, filile fear of offending him.
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  Speaker 1: Dost thou believe, then thy soul doth magnify the Lord
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  Speaker 1: and the spirit rejoiceth in God, thy Savior. Thou rejoicest
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  Speaker 1: in that thou hast redemption through His blood, even the
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  Speaker 1: forgiveness of sins. Thou rejoicest in that spirit of adoption
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  Speaker 1: which crieth in thy heart. Abbah Father, Thou rejoicest in
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  Speaker 1: a hope full of immortality, in reaching forth unto the
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  Speaker 1: mark of the prize of Thy high calling, in an
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  Speaker 1: earnest expectation of all the good things which God hath
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  Speaker 1: prepared for them that love him. Dost thou now believe,
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  Speaker 1: then the love of God is now shed abroad in
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  Speaker 1: thy heart. Thou lovest Him, because He first loved us,
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  Speaker 1: And because thou lovest God, thou lovest thy brother also,
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  Speaker 1: And being filled with love, peace, joy, thou art also
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  Speaker 1: filled with long suffering, gentleness, fidelity, goodness, meekness, temperance, and
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  Speaker 1: all the other fruits of the same spirit. In a word,
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  Speaker 1: with whatever dispositions are holy, are heavenly or divine. For
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  Speaker 1: while thou beholdest with open, uncovered face, the veil now
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  Speaker 1: being taken away, the glory of the Lord, his glorious love,
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  Speaker 1: and the glorious image wherein thou hast created, thou art
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  Speaker 1: changed into the same image, from glory to glory by
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of the Lord. This repentance, this faith, this peace,
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  Speaker 1: joy love, this change from glory to glory, is what
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  Speaker 1: the wisdom of the world has voted to be madness,
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  Speaker 1: mere enthusiasm, utter distraction. But thou, o man of God,
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  Speaker 1: regard them. Not be thou moved by none of these things.
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  Speaker 1: Thou knowest in whom thou hast believed. See that no
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  Speaker 1: man take thy crown, whereunto thou hast already attained. Hold
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  Speaker 1: fast and follow till thou attain all the great and
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  Speaker 1: precious promises. And thou who hast not yet known him.
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  Speaker 1: Let not vain men make THEE ashamed of the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: of Christ. Be th in nothing, terrified by those who
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  Speaker 1: speak evil of the things which they know not. Of
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  Speaker 1: God will soon turn thy heaviness into joy. O. Let
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  Speaker 1: not thy hands hang down yet a little longer, and
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  Speaker 1: He will take away thy fears and give THEE the
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  Speaker 1: spirit of a sound mind. He is nigh that justifieth,
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  Speaker 1: who is he that condemneth It is Christ that died,
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  Speaker 1: yea rather that rose again, who is even now at
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  Speaker 1: the right hand of God making intercession for THEE. Now
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  Speaker 1: cast thyself on the lamb of God with all thy sins,
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  Speaker 1: how many soever they be, And an entrance shall now
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  Speaker 1: be ministered unto THEE into the Kingdom of our Lord
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  Speaker 1: and Savior, Jesus Christ. End of Section seven.