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which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

3: 16. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the temple of God is holy; which temple ye are.

6:11. But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 19. What! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

T12: 3. No man, speaking by the Spirit of God, calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit: and there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another, the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; to another, faith by the same Spirit; to another, the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; to another, the working of miracles; to another, prophecy; to another, discerning of spirits; to another, divers kinds of

tongues; to another, the interpretation of tongues. But all these worketh that one and the self-same Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

2 COR. 1: 22. God hath sealed us, and given us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

3: 18. We all, with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.

GAL. 5: 5. We, through the Spirit, wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. 16. Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh, for the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary. — 22. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temper

ance.

6:8. He that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption. He that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Ерн. 1 : 13. Ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise.

2: 18. We have access by one Spirit unto the Father. 22. Ye are built up, an habitation of God through the Spirit.

3: 16. God grant you to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man.

5: 9. The fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

PHIL. 2: 1. If there be any fellowship of the Spirit... be ye like

minded.

2 THESS. 2: 18. God hath chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.

1 Pet. 1: 2. Elect, according_to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience.

1 JOHN 3: 24. We know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

REV. 1: 10. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day.

§ 4. THE SPIRIT MAY BE RESISTED.

ISA. 63: 10. They rebelled and

vexed his Holy Spirit; therefore he was turned to be their enemy.

ZECH. 7: 12. They made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of Hosts sent in his Spirit by the former prophets.

Acts 7: 51. Ye do always resist the Holy Ghost.

EPH. 4: 30. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

1 THESS. 5: 19. Quench not the Spirit.

HEB. 3: 7. The Holy Ghost saith, To-day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts.

REV. 22: 17. The Spirit and the bride say come.

HEB. 6: 4. It is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gifts, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted of the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come; if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance.

HEB. 10: 28. He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses. Of how much sorer punishment shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing, and hath done despite to the spirit of grace.

CHAPTER III.

MEANS OF GRACE.

the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

JOHN 8: 31. If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed: and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

12: 48. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.

17:11. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.. And now come I to thee, and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou_shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified

MAT. 7:24. Therefore whosoev- through the truth.

er HEARETH THESE SAYINGS OF MINE

AND DOETH THEM, I will liken him unto a wise man that built his house upon a rock.... Every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, that built his house upon the sand.

LUKE 8: 11. The seed is the word of God. Those by the wayside are those that hear; then cometh the devil and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. ... That on

¶ Acts 17: 11. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. Therefore many of them believed; also of honorable women which were Greeks, and of men not a few.

ROM. 1: 16. For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew

first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, "The just shall live by faith." (HAB. 2: 4.)

3: 1. What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way; chiefly because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

GAL. 1: 6. I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him, that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another gospel: which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed! As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed! For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man: for I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

EPH. 6: 17. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

COL. 3: 16. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

2 TIM. 2: 8. Remember that Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, was raised from the dead, according to my gospel: wherein I suffer trouble as an evil doer even unto bonds: but the word of God is not bound.

T3: 16. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness : that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

4: 1. I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.

JAMES 1: 19. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness, and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the word, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

2 PET. 1: 16. For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory,

This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount. We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts: knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

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SECOND GENERAL TOPIC.

TERMS OF ACCEPTANCE, OR CONDITIONS WITH WHICH THE SINNER MUST COMPLY.

CHAPTER I.

REPENTANCE.

§ 1. THE DUTY ENJOINED.

MAT. 3: 1. In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying, Repent ye; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.-7. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers! who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come ? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance and think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees; therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

4: 17. From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 9: 13. I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance. LUKE 13:3. Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

MARK 6 12. They went out and preached that men should repent.

LUKE 15: 10. There is joy in the presence of the angels of God, over one sinner that repenteth.

ACTS 2: 37. Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the Apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins,

and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

3: 19: Repent ye therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out.-26. Unto you first God, having raised up his son Jesus, sent him to bless you in turning away, every one of you from his iniquities.

14: 15. We also are men of like

passions with you, and preach unto you, that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein : who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways: nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

17:30. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent: because he hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousness, by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

20: 20. I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have showed you, and have taught you, publicly and from house to house, testifying, both to the Jews and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

26: 19. Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto

the heavenly vision: but showed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.

tribulation, and all these things come upon thee, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shall be obedient to his voice, he will not forsake thee.

ISA. 55: 7. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

EZEK. 18: 21. If the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. They shall not be mentioned unto him. In his righteousness that he hath done shall he live. Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the LORD God: and not that he should return from his ways and live? 30. Repent and turn from all your transgressions: so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

EZEK. 33: 11. Say unto them, As I live, saith the LORD God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from ; his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth. When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust | to his own righteousness, and com- 33: 11. As I live, saith the LORD mit iniquity, all his righteousness God, I have no pleasure in the death shall not be remembered; but for of the wicked; but that the wicked his iniquity that he hath committed, turn from his way and live. Turn he shall die for it. Again, when I ye, turn ye from your evil ways, for say unto the wicked, Thou shalt why will ye die, O house of Israel ! surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live. Yet the children of thy people say, 'The way of the LORD is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal. When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby. But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby. Yet ye say, The way of the LORD is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.

HOSEA 6: 1. Let us return unto the LORD; for he hath torn, and he will heal us: he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

14: 1. O Israel, return unto the LORD for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Take with you words and say unto him, 'Take away all iniquity and receive us graciously.

JOEL 2: 12. Therefore also now, saith the LORD, Turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning and rend your heart and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness.

ZECH. 1: 3. Thus saith the LORD of Hosts, Turn ye unto me, and I will turn unto you.

ISA. 1: 16. Wash you, make you clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes. Cease to do evil; learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed,

§ 2. ACCEPTANCE PROMISED TO THE judge the fatherless, plead for the

PENITENT.

widow. Come now and let us reason together, saith the LORD. Though DEUT. 4: 30. When thou art in your sins be as scarlet, they shall be

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