what may be esteem'd no more than a common Inadvertency. THESE Confiderations fhould make us extremely jealous of ourselves, and our whole Behaviour; becaufe Careleffness in Duty naturally hardens into Stubbornness, Stubbornness ftifles God's Grace within us, and destroys the very Principles of our Spiritual Life. The worst of Men were once under and fufceptible of gracious Impreffions; but inafmuch as they neglected to give due Attention to thofe Impreffions, they were left to themselves, and having quite quenched God's Grace within them, nothing could remain but a certain fearful looking-for of Judgment, and fiery Indignation to devour them. IT is therefore our Duty to be always attentive to the Motions of God's Grace, and to be ever laborious to improve them to all Purposes of Chriftian Holiness, for which they were given. This will open a blifsful Communication between the Bleffed Spirit and our Souls, engaging for us a ready Support in all our Wants, a fubftantial Comfort in all our Diftreffes, and a transforming us into the Likeness of his blessed Self, and bringing us forwards to that Inheritance, which was purchased for us by Christ's Merits, and fecured to us by that Gospel-Regeneration, which the Holy Ghost, the third Perfon in the ever glorious Trinity, worketh out in the Souls of all the Faithful. MAY it please that Bleffed Spirit of God to prepare us for his Reception, and evermore to grant us large Portions of his Grace, through Jefus Chrift. Amen. VOL. II. E SERMON SERMON IV. ROM. V. 19. For as by one Man's Difobedience many were made Sinners; fo by the Obedience of one fhall many be made Righteous. A J BUNDANCE of Errors in Religion arife from Men's taking the Doctrines of it in a partial View: Our Faculties indeed at the beft are very narrow and fhort-fighted, yet not to fo great a Degree, as to prevent our coming to a fufficient Knowledge of Religious Truths, provided we would be but careful to examine and compare together the Whole, which the Scriptures VOL. II. E 2 fay fay concerning them: But when one Ar- both ; ex. gr. The spiritual State of Man |