A Series of Sermons, Upon the Most Important Principles of Our Holy Religion ... - Alexander Macwhorter - Google Livres

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Some of the natural perfections of God considered.

Psalms cxlv. 3. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be fear-

ed, and his greatness is unsearchable.

Contemplations on some of the moral perfections of God.

Exodus xxxiii. 19. And he said, I will make all my good-

ness pass before thee.

The primitive rectitude of man.

Gen. i. 26, 27. And God said let us make man in our image,

after our likeness; and let him have dominion over the

fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the

cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing

that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his

own image, in the image of God created he him.

The primitive covenant made with man, or the covenant

Gen. ii. 16, 17. And the Lord God commanded the man,

saying, of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat;

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou

mayest not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest

thereof, thou shalt surely die.

The image of Adam impressed on all his posterity.

Gen. v. 3. And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years,

and begat a son in his own likeness and after his image.

The first intimation of hope to fallen man considered.

Gen. iii. 15. And I will put enmity between thee and the

woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise

thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

The impossibility of man's salvation by the first constitu

tion, yet a strange disposition to seek eternal life by it.

Gen. iii. 24. So he drove out the man; and he placed at

the east of the garden of Eden, cherubims and a flaming

sword, which turned every way to keep the tree of life.

Original Sin established.

Rom. xv. 12. Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the

world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon

men, for that all have sinned.

The exceeding greatness of man's depravity.

Jer. xvii. 9. The heart is deceitful above all things, and

desperately wicked.

The first advent of Christ, a great event.

Psalms xl. 7, 8. Then said I, lo I come, in the volume of

the book it is written of me; I delight to do thy will, O

Looking to Jesus for Salvation..

Look unto me and be ye saved all the ends

for I am God and there is none else.

Safety in repairing to Jesus.

Isa. xxxii. 2. And a man shall be as an hiding place from

the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as rivers of water

in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary

The blood of Christ the ground of Salvation.

1 John i. 7. The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanse th

Christ a precious Saviour.

I. Pet. ii. 7. Unto you therefore who believe he is precious. 211

Security in a state of sin described.

For I was alive without the law once.

The nature and use of convictions.

Acts xvi. 29. 30. Then he called for a light and sprang in,

and came trembling and fell down before St. Paul and Si-

las, and brought them out and said, sirs, what might I do

The doctrine of regeneration considered.

John. iii. 3. Jesus answered and said unto him, verily,

verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he

cannot see the kingdom of God.

Some of the first effects of Regeneration.

II. Cor. v. 17. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a

new creature, old things are passed away; behold all

things are become new.

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That ye put off concerning the former con-

versation the old-Man, which is corrupt according to the

deceitful lusts.

Evangelical Repentance.

Acts xvii. 30. And the times of this ignorance, God winked

at, but now commandeth all men every where to repent.

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The doctrine of Repentance farther considered.

Luke xiii. 3. I tell you nay, but except ye repent, ye shall

all likewise perish.

Saving faith described.

Heb. ii. 1. Now faith is the substance of things hoped

for, the evidence of things not seen.

Sving knowledge distinguished and explained.

jer. ix. 24. Let him that glorieth, glory in this, that he

understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which

exercise loving kindness, and judgment and righteousness

in the earth; for in these things I delight saith the Lord. $19

Justification by the righteousness of Christ.

Rom. x. 4. For Christ is the end of the law for righte-

Qusness to every one that believeth.

Acceptance with God by Christ's obedience to the law.

Isa. xiii. 21. The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness

sake, he will magnify the law and make it honorable. 342

I. John iii. 1. Behold, what manner of love, the Father

hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons

Sanctification.

I. Thes. iv. 3. This is the will of God even your sanctifi-

The nature and necessity of Holiness.

Heb. xii. 24. Follow-Holiness without which, no man

shall see the Lord..

Love to God, the great commandment,

Mark xii. 30. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with

with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy

mind, and with all thy strength. This is the first com-

Love to our neighbour explained.

Gal. v. 14. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in

this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Love the great principle of all religion.

I. Cor. xiii. 2. And though I have the gift of prophecy,

and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and tho'

I have all faith so that I could remove mountains, and

have no charity, I am nothing.

SERMON XXXVIII.

Assurance of grace established.

II. Pet. i. 10. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give all

diligence to make your calling and election sure.

The testimony of a good conscience.

II. Cor. i. 12. For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of

our conscience, that in simplicity and Godly sincerity, not

with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have

had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly

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