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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A DISCOURSE REPENTANCE. INTRODUCTION. THE Christian Religion, as St. Paul preached it both to Jews and Gentiles, consists of repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ, and may therefore be properly called the religion of a sinner; fur none but sinners need repentance, or faith in a Mediator, or that forgiveness of sins, which through, him is preached to all that believe. This consideration ought carefully to be attended to; Jesus Christ came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance: and if men lose sight of this peculiarity of the gospel, they will mistake in a fundamental concern.; and be offended with those ministers, who alone address them in a Scriptural method. Our business, as preachers of the gospel, is not with men, merely as rational agents, but with men as sinners. We must not address them, as if they were newly entered on a state of trial; were as yet free from all blame; and were at last to stand or fall according to their future good or bad behaviour, and only needed to be instructed in their duty, and excited to perform it. This is not the state of the case. Even the most moral, respectable, and amiable of mankind are sinners, ?condemned sinners. In this light the word of God considers us; and informs us, (not What good thing we may do to inherit eternal life, but) What we must do to be saved from impending ruin; whither a sinner may flee from the wrath to come. And thus must the faithful minister address his hearers, calling upon them as sinners, to repent and believe the gospel. By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men. Rom. v. la. In consequence of the awful sentence, ' Dust limit art, and to dust thou shalt return, millions through succe...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458940285 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458940284 |
| Weight | 2.30 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.58 In |
| List Price | $46.03 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 720 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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