A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

Doct. That, The best Security the best of God's Children have from the Commission and from the Dominion of presumptuous Sins, is only their own fervent Prayers, and God's Almighty Grace.

Doct. That, The best Security the best of God's Children have from the Commission and from the Dominion of presumptuous Sins, is only their own servent Prayers, and God's Almighty Grace.

In the Prosecution of this Doctrine, I shall endeavour to show you, when it is that a Man is guilty of presumptuous Sins, and wherein the Nature of such Sins consists.

In the Prosecution of this Doctrine, I shall endeavour to shew you, when it is that a Man is guilty of presumptuous Sins, and wherein the Nature of such Sins consists.

First, Then a Sin is presumptuous, when it is committed against the powerful Dictates of a Man's own Conscience, and against the clear Convictions of the Holy Ghost. When Conscience is awakened in Conviction, and rings aloud in Men's Ears, the ways thou livest in are grossly sinful, the end of them is Hell and Death; thou wadest through the dearest Blood of thine own Soul if thou goest on; seest thou not how Guilt dismally stares thee in the Face? Seest thou not how the Mouth of Hell belches out Fire, and Flames, and Brimstone against thee? stop therefore, I here, as God's Officer, arrest thee. If now, when Conscience thus calls, and cries, and threatens, Men will yet venture on, this is most bold and daring Presumption: To disobey the Arrest but of the King's Officer, is a most presumptuous Crime; how much more therefore to disobey the Arrest of Conscience, which is the chief and supreme Officer of God, and who commands in the name, yea, in the stead of God, as it were, in the Soul; and yet truly, who among us is not in some kind or other guilty of this Presumption? Why, Sirs, if God should now come down