ADVERTISEMENT. THE Author of the following Sermons at present intends, "if the LORD will," to publish corresponding volumes in succession. In occasionally mentioning the sources, from which ideas have been drawn; the Author by no means intends to intimate, that he is indebted to no other. Every one must perceive, that it would be absurd to attempt the impossibility, of determining the original germ of every deduced senti ment. iv. ADVERTISEMENT. The Author may add, that he has endeavoured, as much as possible, to avoid the sin of "stealing the words of GOD from his neighbour;" (Jer. xxiii. 30;) and has consequently relied more on the teaching of the SPIRIT, than on human authority. It will therefore be found, that he has sometimes ventured to differ from established opinions, on unessential points of doctrine, and on the interpretation of doubtful passages of Scripture; whenever such opinions have appeared to him, as resulting from the prejudices of education. (Matt. xiii: 52.) But, the following pages contain nothing contrary to that "analogy of faith," which has been held by the Church of CHRIST in every age. Shirwell, North Devon. CONTENTS. "A looking glass for the heart." An extract * These Sermons were preached and published as one Union to CHRIST the only source of true "But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the SPIRIT of GOD dwell in you. Reconception, Regeneration, and the New in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy GOD shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: that thou mayest love the LORD thy GOD, and that thou mayest obey His voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto Him: for He is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy The Pelagian, Socinian, and Arminian errors |