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HOW
THE
CHRISTIAN
LIVES.
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feted
to
assault
and
buffet us,
we find
inroads made
upon our
holiness
and our
peace.
Always
dying,
yet
behold, we live.
I.
By
a
fresh
sight
of
the
glory
of
Christ, and the
all-
sufficiency
of
the covenant
of Grace
;
when
we
our.
selves
are never
so guilty,
there
is
righteousness
in him
sufficient
:
when
we
are
unholy, there
is
sanctifying grace
in
him:
when weak and wavering,.
there
is
life
and
strength,
and
stability
in him
:
when diffident
and
sus
-
picious
of our
own
hearts, there
is
faintness and
safety
in
the
covenant
of
Grace:
when
we
lose our sight
of
Christ
and'the
covenant
of
Grace,
we
die; but
we in
a
renewed view
of
the glorious Gospel, and the
So'
God,
and then
we
live.
Jesus
is
our
life and
our
al-
vation.
II.
By
mourning
for
past
miscarriages, and
awak-
ing and
stirring up our
souls
to new
vigour and
watch-
fulness.
In
this
life,
the children
of
God,
walking
through the wilderness, often
fall
and
rise
again;
fad
by
sins
of
infirmity,
and
rise
by
repentance.
By
shaking off sloth,
renouncing our
idols,
going
forth
again
in new
strength,
by
chiding our hearts out
of
their
desponding frames.
Psa.
xlii.
ult.,
Why
art-thou
cast
down, O my.soul,
and
why
art
thou disquieted
within
me
?
Hope
thou in God
;
for
I
shall
yet praise
him,
who
is
the
health
óf
my
countenance
and
my
God.
III.
By
renewed exercises
of
faith on
Christ and
his
Gospel.
As we
begin the
spiritual
life, so
we
must
con-
tinue in
it,
and
so
recover
it.
We are
crucified
with
Christ,
and
yet
we
live
;
and,
as
the apostle saith,
.
Not
I,
hut Christ
liveth in
nie.
Gal.
ii.
r0.
I
live by
the
faith
of
the
Son
of
God.
IV.
By
some
suitable
word
of
God,
brought
to the
heart,
and
imprest upon it
by
the
Holy.
Spirit,
who
is
a
sanctifier and comforter.
Gal.
vi.
JO.
Be
not
weary in
well- doing,
for
in
due time you shall
reap if
you
faint
not.
The
Spirit
often
makes
use
of
his own
word to
quicken
our
dying graces,
to revive
our
dying
comforts,
and
to
save
our
souls_from
spiritual
death.
V. By
the special ordinances
of
the New Testament,,
I
mean
particularly the Lord's
Supper;
in
all the
parts
of
it,
it
is
fitted to renew
the
dying
life
of
a
saint. Are
we
ready to
dieunder
the
sense
of
guilt? Here
is
par-
doning
mercy.
Are.
we
sinking under
sorrows
?
Here
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