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Address 1: The reason of my humbly and affectionately addressing this discourse to the clergy…
Address 2: If it be asked, What this one thing is? It is the SPIRIT OF GOD…
Address 3: Everything else, be it what it will, however glorious and divine in outward appearance…
Address 4: All scripture bears full witness to this truth, and the end and design of all…
Address 5: The grounds and reasons of which are as follow.…
Address 6: All possible goodness that either can be named, or is nameless…
Address 7: All that can be called goodness, holiness, divine tempers…
Address 8: God could not make the creature to be great and glorious in itself…
Address 9: But now, if all that is divine, great, glorious…
Address 10: The matter therefore plainly comes to this, nothing can do…
Address 11: Now the reason why no work of religion, but that which is begun…
Address 12: All TRUE religion is, or brings forth, an essential union and communion of the spirit…
Address 13: Now as no animal could begin to respire, or unite with the breath of this…
Address 14: Take away inspiration, or suppose it to cease, and then no religious acts or affections…
Address 15: A religious faith that is uninspired, a hope, or love that proceeds not from the…
Address 16: A religion that is not wholly built upon this supernatural ground…
Address 17: No man therefore can reach God with his love…
Address 18: Divine inspiration was essential to man's first created state.…
Address 19: Hence it plainly appears that the gospel state could not be God's last dispensation…
Address 20: Now from these words let this conclusion be here drawn…
Address 21: Now as infinitely absurd as this conclusion is, no one that condemns continual immediate inspiration…
Address 22: Behold a pride, and a humility, the one as good as the other…
Address 23: The necessity of a continual inspiration of the Spirit of God…
Address 24: Now when Christ had told them of the necessity of an higher state than that…
Address 25: Here are two most important and fundamental truths fully demonstrated…
Address 26: Secondly, that as the apostles could not, so no man…
Address 27: For why could not the apostles, who had been eye witnesses to all the whole…
Address 28: But if the belief of the necessity and certainty of immediate continual divine inspiration…
Address 29: Now this middle way has neither scripture nor sense in it…
Address 30: And here lies the TRUE unchangeable distinction between God…
Address 31: This must be the case of all fallen Christendom…
Address 32: But to return now to the doctrine of continual inspiration.…
Address 33: And what is well to be noted, everyone, however high in human literature…
Address 34: Our divine master compares the religion of the learned Pharisees "to whited sepulchers…
Address 35: Now whence was it, that a religion, so serious in its restraints…
Address 36: And yet, sad and satanical as this self is…
Address 37: But to all this it must yet be added…
Address 38: Let then the writers against continual immediate divine inspiration take this for a certain truth…
Address 39: Hence it is, that grieving, quenching, or resisting the Spirit…
Address 40: "When I am lifted up from the earth," says Christ…
Address 41: Now that which we are here taught, is the whole end of all scripture…
Address 42: "Ye are not in the flesh," says the apostle…
Address 43: "Lo, I am always with you," says the holy Jesus…
Address 44: Again, Christ, after his glorification in heaven, says, "Behold I STAND at the DOOR and…
Address 45: Now the matter is not at all about the different effects or works proceeding from…
Address 46: It is to no purpose to object to all this…
Address 47: But as I do not begin to doubt about the necessity…
Address 48: Another charge upon me, equally false, and I may say…
Address 49: I have elsewhere shown the gross darkness and ignorance which govern that which is called…
Address 50: And here truth obliges me to say, that scholastic divinity is in as great ignorance…
Address 51: Now hard as this may seem to unregenerate nature…
Address 52: "Except ye be converted, and become as little children…
Address 53: Now whether this self broken off from God, reasons…
Address 54: Hence also it is, that Christendom, full of the nicest decisions about faith…
Address 55: A scholar, pitying the blindness and folly of those who live to themselves in the…
Address 56: But that I may fully show the perverseness of my accusers…
Address 57: "You shall see reason possessed of all that belongs to it.…
Address 58: "Man, considered as a member of this world, who is to have his share of…
Address 59: "Now besides these organs of sense, he has a power or faculty of reasoning upon…
Address 60: "Now how is it, that the good things of this world are communicated to man?…
Address 61: "Now here, you must degrade reason just as much as it is degraded by religion…
Address 62: "Now it is only thus helpless and useless in religion…
Address 63: "For the good of religion is like the good of food and drink to the…
Address 64: "But as soon as it is known and confessed…
Address 65: Hence may be seen the great and like blindness both of infidels and Christians…
Address 66: Our Lord says, "It is expedient for you that I go away…
Address 67: Christ says further: "I have many things to say unto you…
Address 68: Christ also says, "If any man loves me, my Father will love him…
Address 69: Christ from heaven says, "Behold I stand at the door…
Address 70: "Rabbi," says Nicodemus to Christ, "we know that thou art a teacher come from God.…
Address 71: It would be great folly and perverseness, to charge me here with slighting…
Address 72: I exceedingly love, and highly reverence the divine authority of the sacred writings of the…
Address 73: But now, if this is not thought that fullness of regard that is due to…
Address 74: I shall now only add this friendly hint to the doctor…
Address 75: Now if the doctor did that, though it was only from humility…
Address 76: Let it be supposed, that our Lord was to come again for a while in…
Address 77: Let the doctor figure to himself the gaudy pageantry of a divine high mass in…
Address 78: O vainest of all vain projects! For what is Christianity…
Address 79: I come now to the quotation from the pastoral letter of Mr.…
Address 80: I cannot more illustrate the sense, or extol the judgment…
Address 81: "A judicious naturalist observes, that sound and strong lungs are that on which…
Address 82: These two instances are proof enough, that as soon as any man trusts to natural…
Address 83: Whence is it, that we see genius and natural abilities to be equally pleased with…
Address 84: The other instance of delusion from book learning, relates to Mr.…
Address 85: "The things of God," says St.…
Address 86: The reports that are to be acknowledged as TRUE concerning the Holy Spirit and his…
Address 87: "I am the way, the truth, and the life…
Address 88: Here again may be seen, in the highest degree of certainty…
Address 89: Take away this power and working life of the Spirit from being the one life…
Address 90: How much then is it to be lamented, as well as impossible to be denied…
Address 91: How is it that the logical, critical, learned Deist comes by his infidelity? Why just…
Address 92: Through all scripture nothing else is aimed at or intended for man…
Address 93: But this truth being lost or given up, vain learning and a worldly spirit…
Address 94: Hence it is, that the scripture-scholar is looked upon as having divine knowledge of its…
Address 95: Now to call such scripture skill divine knowledge, is just as solid and judicious…
Address 96: That one light and Spirit, which was only one from all eternity…
Address 97: "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.…
Address 98: For where can God's kingdom be come, but where every other power but his is…
Address 99: What now have parts, and literature, and the natural abilities of man…
Address 100: Now let this simple question decide the whole matter here…
Address 101: Look now at the present state of Christendom, glorying in the light of Greek and…
Address 102: In the first gospel church, heathen light had no other name than heathen darkness…
Address 103: The simplicity indeed, both of the gospel letter and doctrine…
Address 104: But now, what follows from this new risen light? Why…
Address 105: And indeed, if we consider the nature of our salvation…
Address 106: His intellectual faculties are, by the fall, in a much worse state than his natural…
Address 107: Who then can enough wonder at that bulk of libraries…
Address 108: What a grossness of ignorance, both of man and his savior…
Address 109: This will be more or less the case with all the salvation- doctrines of Christ…
Address 110: How came the learned heathens by their pride and vanity…
Address 111: Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our…
Address 112: All the vices of fallen angels and men have their birth and power in the…
Address 113: What is then, or in what lies the great struggle for eternal life? It all…
Address 114: And here it is to be observed, that every son of Adam is in the…
Address 115: The enemies to man's rising out of the fall of Adam…
Address 116: There has been much sharp looking out, to see where and what anti-Christ is…
Address 117: But to know with certainty, where and what anti-Christ is…
Address 118: What therefore has everyone so much to fear, to renounce and abhor…
Address 119: This is that full-born natural self, that must be pulled out of the heart…
Address 120: Now what is it in the human soul that most of all hinders the death…
Address 121: Let then the high accomplished scholar reflect, that he comes by his wit…
Address 122: The finest intellectual power, and that which has the best help in it towards bringing…
Address 123: Yet so it is, in this fallen state of the gospel church…
Address 124: However, to make way for parts, criticism, and language- learning…
Address 125: The first and main doctrine of Christ and his apostles was…
Address 126: This was the kingdom of God come to them…
Address 127: No higher, or other thing is here said, than in these other words…
Address 128: But now, is not this kingdom gone away from us…
Address 129: What is the difference between man's own righteousness and man's own light in religion? They…
Address 130: But lamentable as this is, the letter of scripture has been so long the usurped…
Address 131: The TRUE nature, and full distinction between literal and divine knowledge…
Address 132: Now clear and evident as this distinction is, between a mere literal direction to a…
Address 133: Thus, as soon as a man of speculation can demonstrate that…
Address 134: Again, another, forming an opinion of faith from the letter of scripture…
Address 135: How trifling therefore to say no worse of it is that learning…
Address 136: When the holy church of Christ, the kingdom of God came among men…
Address 137: Hence it is, that from a religion of heavenly love…
Address 138: It may perhaps be here said, Must there then be no learning or scholarship…
Address 139: To this the first answer is, Happy, thrice happy are they…
Address 140: Secondly, with regard to the demand of learned knowledge in the Christian church…
Address 141: There is no knowledge in heaven, but what proceeds from this birth of love…
Address 142: Let this be my excuse to the learned world…
Address 143: One of Christ's followers said, "Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father"…
Address 144: The holy Jesus said, "I am the light of the world…
Address 145: But to see the exceeding folly of expecting ability in divine knowledge…
Address 146: For what is, or can be the fall of a divine Adam under the power…
Address 147: But if fire and Spirit from heaven can alone make heavenly creatures…
Address 148: Behold then your state, ye ministers, that wait at Christian altars…
Address 149: Complain then no more of atheists, infidels, and such like open enemies to the gospel…
Address 150: Our Lord has said, "The kingdom of God is within you…
Address 151: Say now, out of reverence to sound literature, and abhorrence of enthusiasm…
Address 152: What a sobriety of faith and sound doctrine is it…
Address 153: What wonder, if sacraments, church-prayers, and preachings, leave high and low…
Address 154: That the Jewish and Christian church stand at this day in the same kind of…
Address 155: But is it not as easy to see, that the whole Christian church are in…
Address 156: God said to Moses, "Put off thy shoes, for the place whereon thou standest is…
Address 157: But here lies the great mistake, or rather idolatrous abuse of all God's outward dispensations.…
Address 158: Need it now be asked, whether the TRUE Christ of the gospel be less blasphemed…
Address 159: Christian doctors reproach the old learned rabbis, for their vain faith…
Address 160: But nevertheless, in these condemners of rabbinic blindness, St.…
Address 161: But now corruption, sin, death, and every evil of the world…
Address 162: Let then the eager searcher into words for wisdom…
Address 163: Now strange as all this may seem to the labor-learned possessor of far-fetched book- riches…
Address 164: Show me a man whose heart has no desire…
Address 165: On the other hand, show me a scholar as full of learning…
Address 166: Again, all learned Christendom agrees in the same charge against temporal power in the church…
Address 167: And first, can it be said that Mammmon is less served by Christians…
Address 168: Look at things spiritual, and things temporal, and say if you can…
Address 169: Again, secondly, "Ye have heard," says our Lord, "that it hath been said by them…
Address 170: "He that despiseth me," says Christ, "despiseth not me…
Address 171: If the swearing law was to order, that instead of kissing the gospel-book…
Address 172: If it here be asked, whether I would have all private Christians to beggar themselves…
Address 173: What I write, is not to show that Christendom's oaths…
Address 174: When the matter of an oath is a manifest lie…
Address 175: When a person swears of his own accord, or wantonly…
Address 176: But here let it be well observed, that nothing that has here been said…
Address 177: In a word, that which calls for, and requires oaths among Christians…
Address 178: But to proceed now to a third and last instance…
Address 179: In the darkest ages of Romish superstition, a martial spirit of zeal and glory for…
Address 180: The light which broke out at the reformation, abhorred the bloody superstitious zeal of these…
Address 181: Now who can help seeing, that satan, the prince of the powers of darkness…
Address 182: Now fancy to yourself Christ, the Lamb of God…
Address 183: But if this be too blasphemous an absurdity to be supposed…
Address 184: Blinded Protestants think they have the glory of slaughtering blind papists…
Address 185: When a Most Christian Majesty, with his catholic church…
Address 186: A glorious Alexander in the heathen world is a shame and reproach to the human…
Address 187: Can the duelist, who had rather sheathe his sword in the bowels of his brother…
Address 188: Now imagine the duelist fasting and confessing his sins to God today…
Address 189: What blindness can well be greater, than to think that a Christian kingdom…
Address 190: Look at that which the private Christian is to do to his neighbor…
Address 191: Love, goodness, and communication of good, is the immutable glory and perfection of the divine…
Address 192: And if long and long ages of fiery pain…
Address 193: O poor sinner, whoever thou art, repent and turn to God…
Address 194: To prevent all this, and make thee a child of the first resurrection…
Address 195: Now from this view of God's infinite love and mercy in Christ Jesus…
Address 196: The temporal miseries and wrongs which war carries along with it…
Address 197: But there is still an evil of war much greater…
Address 198: That God's providence over his fallen creatures is nothing else but a providence of love…
Address 199: Among unfallen creatures in heaven, God's Name and nature is LOVE…
Address 200: Sing, O ye heavens, and shout all ye lower parts of the earth…
Address 201: Look now at warring Christendom, what smallest drop of pity towards sinners is to be…
Address 202: Here my pen trembles in my hand; but when…
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