Sermons, Chiefly Occasional, on Important Subjects (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1804. Excerpt: ... fend you that we should refuse you this name? and shall you, by countenancing the irreligious, resign it, and in effect deny the faith? You are enraged to be called apostates; and shall you justify the imputation, and fix it indelibly on yourselves, by your conduct and actions, which more certainly ascertain your character than occasional declarations? i You were baptised in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost: You believe in the Father, Son and Holy Spirit: You honour and worship the Father, Son and Holy Spirit: You are consecrated to the service of Gon, separated from the irreligious, united to the church of the faithful. Is there no meaning in this covenant? Is there no obligation on the baptised? If God is your Gon and Father: if Jesus is your Lord and Saviour: if you are buried with him, if you are risen with him, if you are united with him: if you are led by the spirit, and sanctified and comforted, and sealed: sliall not you save yourselves from the perverse enemies of your faith and hope, and joy? Every religious exercise in which you engage is either a solemn profession of your faith in the Gospel, and your attachment to religion, or an impious form and detestable perversion of the offices and ordinances of piety. Prayer and praise, petitions, thanksgivings, confessions, intercessions, are worse than without meaning, are abominable hypocrisy, if you are not Christians: in them you have opened your mouths to the Lord: you cannot go back: you cannot but stiun, and seek to be saved from, the irreligious. There is one solemn, peculiarly solemn profession of our faith and engagement to be separated from the world, and consecrated to God; the recollection of which, and still more the frequent repetition of which, cannot fail greatly to affect an...