SERMON VI.

SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.

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The three eminent faculties of the soul in great disorder by

the fall; namely, the understanding, the will, and the

affections,

The new creature in the apprehensions of his understanding

with regard to the perfections and presence of the blessed

tions.

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God,

With regard to Christ,

With regard to the Spirit,

With regard to Sin,

With regard to God's Law,

With regard to Providence,

With regard to Death,

With regard to Heaven,

With regard to Hell, .

With regard to Eternity,

The formal professor's apprehensions of these things,

The apprehensions of the careless sinner to be observed,

SERMON VII.

SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.

Concerning the will of the new creature,

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The new creature chooses God for his portion, and not the

The new creature chooses God's will, and not his own plea-

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sure,

The formal and the careless do not,

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The affections, the third power of the soul, what they are,
The workings of love and hatred, hope and fear, joy and
sorrow, different in the new creature from the formalist
and careless sinner,

ib.

Love, the ruling affection, employed about different things

in the new and unrenewed mind,

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The new creature's love to God, to Christ, to the Holy

His hopes and fears different from the natural man,

His joy and sorrow also different,

SERMON VIII.

SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.

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179

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The expressions or exercises of the new creature described,
with regard to his thoughts, words, and actions,
With regard to thoughts, he hath a serious turn of thinking, 188
An aptness to fall into holy meditation,
The thoughts of a natural man different,

The new creature doth not entertain defiling thoughts,
The new creature's words,

A wide difference between the new creature's and the natural man's words,

The new creature treats the name of God with respect,
The new creature hath a strong desire to come to the ordi-
nance of the Lord's supper,

He is to make thankful acknowledgments to his head, the

author of his new birth,

ib.

Christ and the promises are the new creature's,

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The new creature is to come to that ordinance, for strength

and growth in grace,

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SERMON IX.

SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.

The new creature's course of action represented negatively and positively,

He forbears all things which he knows to be sinful,
Whoever abides under the power and practice of any known

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sin, cannot be a new creature,

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Vain pretences to excuse the great sin of Drunkenness,
The new creature hath not any thing in his course which he
suspects to be sinful,

The renewed man keeps from all needless temptations,
The true-hearted Christian doth not come under the power
of any lawful thing,

His end in sleeping, dressing, eating and drinking, and re

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217

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The new creature labours to give no offence in any thing, 221
The unrenewed man doth not think about others,
The new creature's zeal and manner of minding the things
of others,

ib.

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The wide opposition between the new creature and the unrenewed man, as to his conduct,

224

SERMON X.

SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.

The new creature's conduct represented positively,
His plan and aim is to live to the glory of God,

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He labours to glorify God in a due regard to divine worship, 231 And by a faithful diligence in his calling,

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He studies to glorify God in the relation he bears to others, 237 All his endowments and abilities of every kind are devoted

SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.

A serious expostulation with the careless sinner and the

formal professor, and advice to the real Christian,

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To have no fellowship with, but to reprove the unfruitful

TO THE

INHABITANTS OF TRURO.

MY DEAR FRIENDS,

I HAVE ventured, at the instance of some pious Christians, to make public the following Discourses, which were originally intended for your service only. The matter of them, at least, is of vast importance, and such as it ought to be my first concern that you may be experimentally acquainted with. I thought it therefore advisable to send them forth to the world with a Dedication to you; that whilst by this means I should have an opportunity of acknowledging the obligations you have laid on me, and, in some sort, of testifying the respect I bear you, I might also, in a way hardly yet attempted by me, endeavour to engage your regards to that "one thing," which in a few years we shall all discover to be indeed "the only thing needful.”

Brethren, if my heart's desire towards you, that ye may be partakers of Christ, makes me earnest and importunate, is there not a cause, seeing your happiness and my own are at stake? I would not

should " come short of entering Nor can I forget the ministerial me, and how fearful my doom,

if

any of you "die in your sins," without warning. For your sakes and my own, then, I beg leave to recommend to you this labour of love.

It is the character of a CHRISTIAN, drawn as faithfully as I have been enabled to do it from the Holy Scriptures. It is not indeed a character which will suit the generality of those who call themselves by that name. Perhaps, also, it may make some, who have formed too favourable an opinion of their religious conduct, to be disgusted with themselves or it. But if vital Christianity be either run down by the torrent of infidelity and licentiousness, or be dwindling into a ceremonial form, in the practice of the few who live decently, and are well spoken of, it becomes the " stewards of the mysteries of God" to rise up to its rescue. It is this has engaged me to present that to you in description, which is but too rarely to be seen in life. That it may be made an instrument in the hands of the Spirit, of forming you after its likeness, is my first and most earnest desire. And should God vouchsafe to grant this blessing upon my attempt, to you and others, it will be my highest comfort, and an encouraging answer to the prayers and labours of,

Your affectionate Servant in Christ Jesus,

SAMUEL WALKER.

Truro, May 22, 1755.