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The fourth (and last) volume of discourses, or sermons, on several scriptures
The fourth (and last) volume of discourses, or sermons, on several scriptures by Ezekiel Hopkins ...The fourth (and last) volume of discourses, or sermons, on several scriptures by Exekiel Hopkins ...
London: printed by H. Clark for J. Robinson, 1696
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Practical CHRISTIANITY Recommended, Urged and Encouraged, In Working out our own SALVATION.
Practical CHRISTIANITY Recommended, Vrged and Encouraged, In Working out our own SALVATION.
Phil. ii. 12.13. Wherefore my Beloved, as ye have always Obeyed, not as in my Presence only, but now much more in my Absence; work out your own Salvation with Fear and Trembling. For it is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do of his good Pleasure.
THE whole Sum of Christianity is Comprehended in two Points, in Knowledge,1 and in Obedience: The one is Conversant about things Supernaturally Revealed; and the other about Duties ⟨p. 2⟩Supernaturally Performed. Now although there be so wide a difference between these two; yet where they are suffered to run on in a course, they will one fall into the other; and Gospel Revelations will make way for, and lead unto Gospel Obedience: Yea, indeed there is no Divine Truth, how Abstracted, how Sublime and Speculative soever it may seem to be, but by the help of one or two Consequences may be handed down along to clear and direct our Practice: And therefore the Apostle speaking of the Whole of Christian Religion,