qg the promifi of the Spirit, of walking YJfe SecT.X 1. OfInitrullion :How vainly all thofe do comfort!themfelves,whoplead duties or opinions, or any high thing in Religion, whofe lives are not cleansed : It, a vain thing toplead the fpiric of God in thee , if that caufe thee not co walk in Gods flatutes, and to dohis judgments; yet this hach been, and is a great deceit; men thinkduties,and external ads of Religion are enough to five them, though their lives be full of noifome filchineffe. Vfe a.What a wonder it is, That that there Ihould be any in Chriftian focieties, that have their lives flained with any grofle fin ; for who is there that cloth not think and hope that hehath this new heart, the Spirit of God within him, when yet his life (peaks nothing but open rebellion and enmity againftGod ? Its not what thou art here in theChurch, with the appearance of piety and devotionupon thee, but what thou art with thy Companions in the temptations of fin. Oh who would think that thou wouldtl ever gofrom the Word preached, from Gods pre- fence, to commit any lewdneffe mot, ? yet nothing is more ordinary : Olt howwilt thou endure the trial! at the day of judgement ? thy works, thy wayes, what thou haft done, theywill be examined. gAtt SERMON XCIII. gods not onely infufing the inward `Principles of grace, but alto vouchfafing his Quickning, "f:lu- ating, eft f i/ling Grace unto his people, inabling them to walk in his Statutes ; maintainedagain( `Pelagians , eirminians and Papijls; eft f, the happy condition of thof vho have this lat- tergrace, as well as theformer. Ezex. rt6.27. Iwill tauf you to walk in my flatutea, and ye (Pall keep my judge. menta. He method that the Spirit of God ufeth ih promifing thefe great mer. cies, bath afforded us profitable obfervations. In thenext place you may remember, that in the general divifon of this Text, therewas the grace of God vouchfafed in the root, and in thefrtait ; in the principles or habits, and in the aflual exercife of grace. We have al- ready dispatched grace in the root, in the principles, which is called A new heart , and, Gods fpirit put into tes : Let us now admire the goodnefs of God in the fruit; for theText bearethboth an holy root, and holy fruit; and this is expreffed in this promde, I will taure them ta Wal/eJn my/latutes a This is a fur- therchitin&mercy ofGod ; it is the fiat and principal mercy indeed, 7o put his Spirit ix am ; and its the (econd,and no lefs neceffary mercy, when this is done, oo
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