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A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures
A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures by Ezekiel Hopkins ...
London: printed by E.H. for Nathanael Ranew, 1693
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Sermon 4: The Nature, Danger, Aggravations, and Cure of Presumptuous Sinning, &c. ON
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.
I might here take occasion to vindicate the Equity and Righteousness of Answ. ⟨p. 260⟩God, in requiring from us the exercise of that Power, that he bestowed upon our natures at first, and which we lost only through our own wilful default but I have done this divers times already, and therefore, I shall only at present briefly consider what Power Men have still lest them, both in a State of Nature, and in a State of Grace, to keep themselves from the commission of Sin, and that in a few particulars briefly.
I might here take occasion to vindicate the Equity and Righteousness of Answ. ⟨p. 260⟩God, in requiring from us the exercise of that Power, that he bestowed upon our natures at first, and which we lost only through our own willful default but I have done this divers times already, and therefore, I shall only at present briefly consider what Power Men have still lest them, both in a State of Nature, and in a State of Grace, to keep themselves from the commission of Sin, and that in a few particulars briefly.
First then, Clear it is, that whatever Power Men have either to naturals or to spirituals; yet they cannot act or exercise that Power, without exciting influence from God to quicken and rouse it; who will say, that a Man that sits hath not power to rise, and that a Man that stands hath not power to walk; and yet it is certain, he neither shall rise nor walk, unless God move and excite and rouse that power of his, and put it upon that work, for in him as we live, so we move and have our being: so then the power to use our power is from God's quickening, enlivening, and actuating of us.
First then, Clear it is, that whatever Power Men have either to naturals or to spirituals; yet they cannot act or exercise that Power, without exciting influence from God to quicken and rouze it; who will say, that a Man that sits hath not power to rise, and that a Man that stands hath not power to walk; and yet it is certain, he neither shall rise nor walk, unless God move and excite and rouze that power of his, and put it upon that work, for in him as we live, so we move and have our being: so then the power to use our power is from God's quickning, enlivening, and actuating of us.