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Sermons . Nineteen Sermons on Several Subjects
Sermons Nineteen Sermons on Several Subjects Author:John Sharp General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1734 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: SERMON VI. federal Caufes of Mem Mtfidkes about the 'Terms of their Salvation, and the Reajbns 'why they deceive themfehes into vain Opinions of their own Security. I J oHN III. 7. Little Children, let no Itfan deceive you. He that doth Right eoufnefs is righteous, even as he is righteous. (T. John's Defign in thefe Words, and in the greateft Part of this Chapter, is to convince thofe to whom he writes, of the abfolute Neceffity there is of living a pure and holy Life, if ever they mean to go to Heaven. And this in Oppofition to thofe Gnojlick Principles that went about in thofe Days, which pretended to reconcile Chri- ftianity with immoral Practices. To this End he tells them in the third verfe, that isbofoever hath the Hope in him of being happy with Chrift, at his fecond Appearance, muft purify himfelf even as He is pure. In the lixth verfe he tells them, that it is in vain to call themfelves Chrift's Difciples, if they indulge themfelves in any Sin, for wkojbever abidcth in Chrift, finneth not: And ivbofoever Jinneth, (that is, lives in any" Courfe of Sin) bath notjeen Chrift, nor known him, how much fcever he pretends to the Knowledge of him. In my Text, which is the next Verfe, he goes on to the fame Purpofe, Little Children,« less