Holiness

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1. FEEFACE. : vii
2. Christ, and desires to advance His kingdom in the world,
3. I shall therefore put my hints into the form of questions,
4. The true sense is, “ that by faith in Me they may receive
5. Owen on “ Indwelling Sin,” and in the work of Stafford on the “ Seventh
6. They maintained that the separate, personal life of the
7. EXTRACTS FROM OLD WRITERS
8. I say, furthermore, that “ a sin,” to speak more par¬
9. Created “ in the image of God,” innocent and righteous at
10. I admit fully that man has many grand and noble
11. In a word, the unifprmity and universality of human
12. Queen’s Head on a village signboard. The deaf man
13. God calls dow
14. How true it is that the holiest saint is in himself a
15. Physician, Shepherd, and Advocate,—in the precious
16. Latimer would have said, it is a kind of “ mingle-mangle,”
17. And, above all, we must tell them that nothing will ever
18. Into the causes of this state of things I cannot pretend
19. Ii may bring down some fresh out-pouring of the grace of
20. Christ by His Spirit is called in Scripture a "sanctified"
21. Coloss. i. 22.) Let the meaning of these five texts be
22. God is one whose “ seed remaineth in him, and he cannot
23. He that boasts of being one of God’s elect, while he is
24. Word of God always addresses its precepts to believers as
25. Holy Spirit conveys fresh supplies of grace to the soul,
26. Representative, Jesus Christ the Lord. His work, and
27. God without some evidence of grace, he had better never
28. This is a very wide and difficult department of our
29. Let us beware in this day of healing wounds slightly, and
30. He expounded them, and showed the searching nature of
31. Christian’s duty in every relation of life, and about our
32. This is the point which occupies one third of the list of
33. Christ, in the eternal covenant, has undertaken on behalf
34. It only remains for me now to bring this subject to a
35. The more light we have, the more we shall see our own
36. He who most entirely agrees with God, he is the most
37. I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”
38. Governors had done so. There was none to blame him if
39. But here let me say, I trust no man will misunderstand
40. It is salt: if it exists, its savour will be perceived. It is
41. Leighton, “ law and Gospel agree.”
42. I know that people are fond of talking about death-bed
43. There is a reality about such living which makes men
44. TTim boldly before men, they were cast into prison and
45. David, and Paul, and John, after a life spent in doing the
46. You may say, “ If you were so holy you would be unlike
47. Lord’s people. I would humbly suggest that we are apt
48. Paul, “ 0 wretched man that I am,” let us also be able to
49. Do you want to attain holiness ? Do you feel this day
50. It is a curious fact that there is no subject about which
51. Jesus founded, and His Apostles preached. It is not the
52. He must fight the flesh. Even after conversion he
53. You fancy that I am going too far, and laying on the
54. The worst thing about many very zealous Churchmen is
55. A religion without doctrine or dogma, is a thing which
56. It is the “ shield of faith ” which quenches all the fiery
57. It spreads far and wide poverty, taxation, and national
58. God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly.”
59. Henry, does not stand alone. In his last days he said to
60. And now let me conclude my whole subject with a few
61. Fear not to go on fighting, if you once enlist. The
62. He is describing the end of one of his best and holiest
63. IIL I will give, in the last place, some hints which
64. But it does cost something to be a real Christian,
65. Now this sounds hard to some. I do not wonder. “ Sir,”
66. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you;
67. It is a large class,—an increasing class,—and a class which
68. For want of “counting the cost,” Demas forsook the
69. For want of “counting the cost,” the children of religious
70. To insist on all believers at once “ rejoicing,” as soon as they believe, is
71. Therefore, when I hear of large numbers being suddenly converted all at
72. Christianity. Set down honestly and fairly what you will
73. It is written,—'■ Son, remember that thou in thy life-time
74. How was it that Saul the Pharisee could ever make up
75. Your enemies seem so many, your besetting sins so strong,
76. IIL The means of religious growth. There are means
77. He manifests more of it in his life. He is going on from
78. I feel almost ashamed to dwell so long upon this part
79. Now what does our Lord Himself say ? “I am the true
80. Let me take it for granted that we do not question the
81. Shepherd, and Friend, unfold themselves to a growing
82. Would anyone know if he is growing in grace ? Then let
83. DO WE GROW?
84. It is useless to conceal from ourselves that the age we
85. Let us patiently hold on our way, remembering that “ we
86. His scholars,—there is evidently implied a habit of
87. Nain to arise from his bier can do miracles yet for your
88. Ho who covets a great estate, because he hath not so much as he desires
89. But shall I say nothing to growing Christians ? Is there
90. It is a striking saying of our Lord, “ Every branch in Me
91. Every preparation has been made. It only remains to
92. Let us observe that the Apostle speaks without any
93. I lay it down fully and broadly, as God’s truth, that a
94. Tecommend them. But let us not reject any doctrine of revelation
95. I see the language of persuasion, confidence, knowledge,—•
96. We may be sure that Paul was the last man in the world
97. Gospel to preach, and one very likely to keep souls back
98. Pauh There are degrees in our sanctification. In our
99. An d yet life may be weak, sickly, unhealthy, painful,
100. Doubts and fears have power to spoil much of the
101. Assurance will enable a man to sleep with the full
102. Lord, who is a most strong tower to all them that put
103. Suppose in the meanwhile that the other shall be con¬
104. Indecision and doubt about our own state in God’s
105. This, too, sounds wonderful and strange, and yet it is
106. Ids, and he is his Beloved’s (Cant. vi. 3), is found by experience to lay
107. God only knows. Still, after every allowance, I fear there
108. He must know what it is simply to believe and to be
109. Is any reader of this paper one of those who desires
110. I bless God that our salvation in no wise depends on
111. His people. The best of servants can give you but a faint
112. Christ, resolve this day to seek it. Labour for it. Strive
113. Finally, do not forget that assurance is a thing which
114. Faith is necessary to salvation : but full assurance that I do believe is
115. They do indeed receive Christ and free grace, but it is with a shaking
116. God hath not in any one place of Scripture declared that without assur¬
117. Again : as reason well exercised in the study of arts and sciences arises
118. JTaU, Cambridge, and sometime Rector of St. Alphege, London, in the
119. Him, though the least and weakest He rejects not."— Archbishop
120. Rev. John Newton, sometime Vicar of Obiey, and Rector of St. Mary,
121. Hebrews did. The way was narrow to all, but pre¬
122. English minds would find it hard to reckon up and
123. To the eye of sense there seemed no chance of their
124. To be thought a fool.—There is nothing grand in all
125. He believed that God was all merciful. Reason and
126. Moses, saw by faith. These were the things he believed,
127. The world in the nineteenth century is what it always
128. I remember it is written, “ There went great multitudes
129. Sunday repeat the creed, and make a point of declaring
130. Would you bring forth much fruit? Would you be
131. Has any one of my readers grace in his heart ?—So also
132. Lord hath sent us to destroy it.” (Gen. xix. 13.) And
133. And what shall we say of these people? They often
134. Perhaps at one time you did run welL But you have
135. Men never want reasons to confirm their wills. But one
136. Think of your soul, your immortal soul. Will it be fed or
137. You may be an earnest, zealous Christian now. You
138. Not one of his servants served his master’s God. Not one
139. Jacob, Joseph, David,—but not one word about Lot. Oh,
140. They no longer make a person singular. They require
141. Oh, let not one of us linger! Time does not,—death
142. Him; yet even He thinks it good to remind us of lost
143. Yet what good effect had all these privileges on the
144. Paul’s companion; Judas Iscariot was Christ’s disciple;
145. I ask the children of religious parents to mark well 1
146. When we cannot see the reason of God’s dealings, our
147. But they have caught the epidemic disease: they are
148. Little by little they fall away and l
149. The spring of their former Christianity is dried up and
150. His own sake, if you follow Him at all. Be thorough, be

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