A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

Use. Let it press us not to rest in abstaining from Sin merely. Many are not vicious, but they are not sanctified, they have no feeling of the Power of the new Life. The Pharisees Religion ran upon Negatives; Luke 18.11. God, I thank thee, I am not as other Men are, Extortioners, Unjust, Adulterers, or even as this Publican. To enforce this, consider, both are contrary to the new Nature; it hates Evil, and loves Good. Where there is Regeneration, there is a putting on, and a putting off; Ephes. 4.22, 23, 24. That ye put off, concerning the former Conversation, the Old Man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful Lusts. And be renewed in the Spirit of your Mind. And that ye put on the New Man, which after God is created in Righteousness and true Holiness. The new Nature makes Conscience of abstaining from Sin, and obeying God's Precepts. And both are serviceable to the Work of Grace; Grace is obstructed by Sins of Omission and Commission, for Sins increase as well as unfitness for Duty. The Motions of the Spirit are quenched, and Lusts grow prevalent in the Soul, and both are odious to God. A barren Tree cumbers the Ground, and is rooted up as well as the poisonous Herb.

Vse. Let it press us not to rest in abstaining from Sin meerly. Many are not vicious, but they are not sanctified, they have no feeling of the Power of the new Life. The Pharisees Religion ran upon Negatives; Luke 18.11. God, I thank thee, I am not as other Men are, Extortioners, Vnjust, Adulterers, or even as this Publican. To enforce this, consider, both are contrary to the new Nature; it hates Evil, and loves Good. Where there is Regeneration, there is a putting on, and a putting off; Ephes. 4.22, 23, 24. That ye put off, concerning the former Conversation, the Old Man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful Lusts. And be renewed in the Spirit of your Mind. And that ye put on the New Man, which after God is created in Righteousness and true Holiness. The new Nature makes Conscience of abstaining from Sin, and obeying God's Precepts. And both are serviceable to the Work of Grace; Grace is obstructed by Sins of Omission and Commission, for Sins increase as well as unfitness for Duty. The Motions of the Spirit are quenched, and Lusts grow prevalent in the Soul, and both are odious to God. A barren Tree cumbers the Ground, and is rooted up as well as the poisonous Herb.