The one thing necessary Preached in a sermon at Pauls, before the Right Honourable…

A third thing conducible to salvation, is, work in the strength of Christ. [Greek or Hebrew], I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me, Phil. 3. 13. never go to work alone.^* Samsons strength lay in his hair. And a Christians strength lies in Christ. When you are to do any duty, to resist any tentation, to subdue any lust, set upon it in the strength of Christ; some go out against sin in the strength of resolutions and vows, and they are soon foiled: Do as Sampson, he first cried to Heaven for help,^*& then ⟨p. 70⟩^*having taken hold of the Pillars, he pulled down the house upon the Lords of the Philistines. When we engage Christ in the work, and so take hold upon the Pillar of an Ordinance, we then bring down the house upon the head of our lusts.

A third thing conducible to salvation, is, work in the strength of Christ. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me, Phil. 3. 13. never go to work alone.^* Sampsons strength lay in his hair. And a Christians strength lies in Christ. When you are to do any duty, to resist any tentation, to subdue any lust, set upon it in the strength of Christ; some go out against sin in the strength of resolutions and vowes, and they are soon foiled: Do as Sampson, he first cried to Heaven for help,^*& then ⟨p. 70⟩^*having taken hold of the Pillars, he pul'd down the house upon the Lords of the Philistines. When we engage Christ in the work, and so take hold upon the Pillar of an Ordinance, we then bring down the house upon the head of our lusts.