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pot made . sinful through an almost almighty malignant fceing inspiring you with evil thoughts and propensities ; but that you , and all men , have become sinners by suffering your o > n lusts to tempt and draw you into sin , by personally transgressing . Consequently you have to take all the guilt and shame of your sins entirely to yourselves , and must , on due reflection , feel an awful sense of your accountability to God for all the moral evttthat is found in you .
5 . You have been convinced , that without repentance you can * not be save . d , but must unavoidably perish ; atid that you no further repent than you forsake your sins ; that repentance consist ^ , not in having your feelings violently agitated ; in what some men call being shaken over hell , &c . ; but in such a sorrdw for sin as produces amendment of life , in ceasing to do evil and learning to do well . See that you daily reduce these views to practice . Examine yourselves ;
consider your ways ; depart from whatever you find contrary to the will of God , / either in your spirit or conduct ; seek for an increase of purity both in heart and life . Remember you cau no further enjoy peace than you obtain deliverance from sin . Build not on frames and feelings ; hope not to be saved for your opinions 3 but always keep in mind that holiness is essential to happiness *
6 . Remember that faith in Christ , the necessity of vrhicli you have been taught , consists not in notions about his person , nor in a reliance on his merits , nor in a mere persuasion that he died for you ^ nor in certain rapturous feelings , but in the steady belief of what he taught , as coming from God , and being of divine authority J not in a Cold-hearted assent to the truth of his doctrines , but in such a heartyreception of the gospel as fixes our faith and hope in God , 1 Peter
1 . 21 . and produces obedience to the truth believed * Seek to increase in this faith . Obey the truth so far as you understand it . Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ . You know that faith without works is dead , and that it can only be made perfect by works . If , with the ideas you have received , you live in disobedience to the gospel , you will shew yourselves of all men the most inconsistent , and be the most self-condemned . O !
tremble at the thought of allowing yourselves in the practice of any known sin , or in the omission of any known duty . 7 . Remember , you are called to walk as Christ also walked ; to let the same mind be in you which was also in him ; to conform yourselves to his example ; to imitate his humility , meekness ^ gentle * . ness , peaceable and forgiving temper ; to he like him in piety , resignation , patience , and submission to the will of God ; to love one
another as he hath loved you ; to be tender-hearted , compassionate and kind , as he was ; to resist evil , and obey God as he did ; to imi ^ tate his purity , holiness , goodness , and love ; to love , forgive , and pray for your enemies as he did for his . In all these things you are called to be like Christ , and with your views of his person , as one made in all things like unto his brethren , you must feel it practicable
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1807, page 251, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2380/page/27/
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