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THE
GOSFLL-MYSTERY
OF
S.AICTIFICATIOK
OPENED,
IJV SUNDRY PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS.
SUITED ESPECIALLY TO THE CASE OF THOSE WHO LABOUR UNDER THE
GUILT AND POWER OF INDWELLING-SIN.
TO WHICH IS ADDED, A
SERMON ON JUSTIFICATION.
BY WALTER MARSHALL,
LATE PREACHER OF THE GOSPEL AT GOSPORT. TO WHICH IS PiiETIXED,
A RECOMMENDATION BY ELEVEN DIVINES.
- God hath chosen the foolish things of the world, to con- found the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things oi the world, to confound the things which are mighty,” Sec. 1 Cor. i. 2£—31.
FROM THE TWELFTH EUROPEAN EDITION.
MEW-YQRK:
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY SOUTHWICK AND PELSUE;
No. 3, New-street.
ADVERTISEMENT
TO THE TWELFTH EUROPEAN EDITION.
IX printing the eleventh edition of this judicious treatise of the justly celebrated Mr. Marshall, entitled, The Gospel Mystery of Sanctification, in the year 1786, the present Editor had recourse to the fourth impression of that book, the only correct one he had seen, printed at Edinburgh, in the year 1T44; by which means, a great number of errors and mistakes, some of them very material, that had crept into some after editions of it, have now been corrected and amended j which will, he hopes, make the perusal of it more acceptable to the intelligent reader.
To the Rev. Mr. Hervey’s warm recommendation «f this excellent treatise, there is now annexed his short difence and additional recommendation of it, selected from his valuable writings, not formerly published with any editions of this tract, till the editor published them with his last impression of it.
Many sincerely regret, that Mr. Marshall did not more fully enlarge upon that important subject of JusTification, subjoined at the end of this valuable treatise, as it would have been an acceptable present to the church; though it is admitted, the Discourse is a most judicious compend of that important doctrine.* There are few practical pieces that have been more acceptable to the piously disposed of every denomination of Christians, than this excellent treatise, or stands more fully recommended by so many eminent divines: and when the names of the two judicious Erskines, Hervcy, and other great divines are among the recommenders of it, it is no wonder it should be purchased with avidity, and also perused with pleasure and advantage. RECOMMENDATION
WILLIAM SMITH.
• Glasgow, August, 1780.
- Jf-the reader ehooses to see a further-illustration of this importaat doctrine of Jmtificatiov, he may consult the Lime-street Lectures, being a defence of some important doctrines of the Gospel,:-and this one among olhers, printed some years ago, by W. ‘shtritb, in two handsome volumes, VoL IX, p. 60—136.
BY THE REV. JOHN M. MASO.’,. D<M.
“TO those Who make living religion-their study, and are anxious to grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Mr. Marshall]!, Treatise an Sanctificatisn^ rightly used, will be of extensive benefit. It is. a book of principles, connected regularly together, and mutually supporting and being supported by each other. It is, therefore, a book which requires the reader to think, to deliberate, to compare. A cursor}’ perusal will be of little advantage ; a partial one will probably do hurt, as it will expose the author to almost certain misconstruction, and the traith itself to unfounded prejudice. But they who can relish solid matter without the attractions of ornamental style, who will be at the trouble to understand Mr. Marshall before ‘they pronounce their judgment, and shall apply his book to the end for which he wrote it, will find, in its weighty sense, much spiritual aliment, and be greatly assisted in bringing forth the fruits of righteousness, which are, fey Jusus Christ, to the fasise .and glory of God.
$. M. MASON.
New-York, Oct. 8,1810,
PREFACE.
READER,
Mr. Walter Marshall, composer of these Direce> tions how to attain to that practice and manner of life which we call holiness, righteousness, or godliness, was educated in New College of Oxford, and was a fellow of said college, and afte rwards he was chosen a fellow of the college of Winchester, but was put under the Bartholomew Bushel,* with near two thousand more lights, (a sin not yet repented of) whose illuminations made the land a” Goshen. He was esteemed a Presby
B> terian, and was called to be pastor to a people at Gosport in Hampshire, where he shined, though he had not the public oil. The substance of these meditations
» e were there spun out of his own experiences; he having been much exercised with troubled thoughts, and that for many years. He had, by many mortifying methods, sought peace of conscience; but notwithstanding all, his troubles still increased. Whereupon he consulted others, particularly Mr. Baxter, whose writings he had been much conrersant with; who thereupon told Mr. Marshall, he took them too legally. He afterwards consulted an eminent divine, Dr. T. G. giving him an account of the state of his soul, and particularizing his sins, which lay heavy upon his conscience ; who, in his reply, told him that, he had forgot to mention the greatest sin of all, the sin of unbelief, in not believing on the Lord Jesus for the remission of his sins, and sanctifying his nature. Hereupon he set himself to the studying and preaching Christ, and attained to eminent “holi
• This alludes to the Act of Parliament, after the restoration of Charles II. 1650. ejecting a vast number of eminent faithful mimsfrom their charges, because they could not comply with prelacyness, great peace of conscience, and joy in the Holy Ghost.*’
Mr. Marshall’s dying words were these, “The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord;” having but just before :suid to those about him, “That he now died in the full persuasion of the truth, and in the comfort of that doctrine which he had preached.” The sum whereof is contained in the ensuing Discourse.
Some time since he was translated by death, Elijuhlike, dropping these sheets as his mantle for succeeding Eliahas to go forth with, for the conversion of sinners, and comfort of drooping souls.
These papers, are the profound experiences of a.studious holy soul, learned of the Father, coming from his very heart; and smell of no_party or design, but for holiness and happiness. Yet, it is to be feared, they will scarcely go down with the heady notionalists of this age, who are of the tribe of Reuben, wavering with every wind of modish doctrine .; but in Judah they will be praised. And we hope that many shrubs and cedars may hereby advance in knowledge and comfort.
But, not to detain you longer, read.jjv.er all these Directions, that you may fully understand the Author, . or read none. *If you do it with the serious humble gpMt,in_.which..they were wrote,, it may be hoped, (the matter being so weighty, and from ao able a hand) through the grace of God, they will sin]; into thy conscience, and make thee . a^«fi&/-xhristian, full of faith, holiness, and consolation.
N. N.
July 21,1692.
The Author of these Directions -was well known to me, and was with me in my house a-month together, about twenty years past; and I esteem him a person deserving the character which this Preface giveth him,,
T. W0OD6OGK.
July 21, 1692.,
RECOMMENDATORY PREFACE,
■PREFIXED TO THE EDITION PRINTED AT EDINBURGH, IN THE YEAR 1733.
THIS excellent Treatise of Mr. Marshall’s, though it is well known among the godly in England, where it has undergone a twofold edition, yet this being the first time of its publication in Scodand, where it is known to but few, we could not refuse, at the desire of those concerned in the publication of it among us, to declare,” that,‘as we have p..-rused the book ourselves, with great edification and pleasure, so we know it hath had the “high approbation and testimony of many eminent for grace and holiness; and judge the publication of it, at this time of the day, seasonable-among us, for~promoting practical religion and godliness, and for giving a just view of the vast odds there is between heathenish morality, adorned with the finest flourishes of human rhetoric, and true gospel-holiness, without which, m man shall see the Lord.
And this Out testimony we judge to be well supported by the words of that great and evangelical person, Mr.. .robert Traill, late minister of the gospel in the city of London, in his postscript to a pamphlet,.entitled, *‘A vindication of the Protestant doctrine, concerning Justification, and of its preachers and professors, from the unjust charge of Antinomianism.” “I think, says he, that Dr. Owen’s excellent book of Justification, and ‘Mr. Marshall’s book of the Mystery of Sanctification by faith in Jesus Christ, are such vindications and confir,matioas ef the Protestant doctrine, against which I
fear no effectual opposition. Mr. Marshall was a holy and retired person, and is only known to most of ut> by his book lately published. The book is a deep practical, well-jointed discourse; and requires a more than ordinary attention in reading of it with profit. And, if it be singly used, I look upon it as one of the most useful books the world has seen for many vetirs. Its excellence is, that it leads the serious/reader directly to Jesus Christ, and cuts the sinews and overturns thfe foundation of the new divinity, by the same argument of gospel holiness by which attempts have been made to «verturn the old. And, as it hath already had the seal of high approbation, by many judicious ministers and christians that have read it, so I fear not but it will stand firm as a rock against all opposition, and prove good seed, and food, and light to many hereafter.”
This testimony, abstracting from human frailties and escapes, to which the greatest men are liable, while they know but in part, we homologate by our subscriptions.
My the Se’j. Mr.-Adam Gib, Minister* of tJis Gospel in the Associate Congregation of Edinburgh.
THOUGH the due recommendations foregoing, wherewith these following Directions have been formerly sent abroad, be what11- pretend- not-to add any weight unto by my assent,1 there seems not, however, arty thing supeitmous, in applying unto two sorts of persons, an advice, which hath been’already given, with respect to the reading of this book.
■ Among the professors of a religious course, sottie do still’adhere unto a legal scheme of holiness, vainly making it the reason of their peace and hope, or, at least, of! their venturing to found- both on Christ; and’others are reconciled unto an. evangelical scheme- of holiness, verily making it the result of their peace and hope, as already fbundedion Christ,-freely offered-to them in the gospel.
The correction Which one of these sorts, and the iri. struction in righteousness which both of them need, may be peculiarly gained from this book: and, for these purposes, they are earnestly entreated to peruse it completely, and in the same order wherein, written: so that the one sort may not, from looking first into the latter part, throw it aside as Antinomian; nor the other sort, from looking only into the former part, throw it aside as legal.
In fine, whereas I have scarcely ever been acquainted with any practical composure, of human product, so evangelical, in a thread more connect, and a method more exact than this: I equally despair that any shall ! reap true benefit, in a partial and confused reading; and hope, that excellent fruit shall, through the divine blessing, redound therefrom, unto such as may read it other- wise.
To proceed thus far, in compliance with the inclination of some gentlemen concerned in this edition, is presumed by
ADAM GIB.
Edinburgh, Dec. 31, 1T4*4
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*Mr. Hervey’s Recommendatory Letter to the Publisher of a new Edition of Mr. Marshall on Sanctification, at London, 1756.
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IT gives me no’ small pleasure, to hear, that you are going’ to fe publish Mr. Marshall’s Gbspcl ISystery of Sdttctification* .The /;!>• slructio’n, consolation, and spiritual improvement, which I myself re ceived from thatsofid and judicious treatise, excite in’mea pleasing hope, that it may be equally instructive and advantageous to others.
The recommendation of it in Tlieron and Atpasio,^ with which you propose to introduce the new edition, is at your service. To this proposal I consent the more readily, because Mr. Marshall’s boot may be looked upon as no improper supplement to these Dialogues and Letters. The author of which intended to have closed his plan with a dissertation on practical holiness, or evangelical obedience.— » But this design was dropped: partly, on account of his very declining health; partly, because the work swelled under his hands, far beyond his expectation.
He has been advised, once more to resume the pen; and treat that grand subject, with some degree of copiousness and particularity. If he should be enabled to execute, what he acknowledges to be expedient, the doctrines already discussed, and the privileges already displayed, will furnish the principal materials for this essay. Justification, free justification, through the righteousness of yestts Christ, is the sacred fleece from which he would spin his thread, and weave his garment i agreeable to that important text, ye are bought t.-ith a price ,• therefore glorify God.*—If providence, in all things wise, and in all things gracious, should see fit to withhold either time or ability for the accomplishment of my purpose, I do, by these
- It is said, by the very best judge of propriety in the sacred writing, ” great is the mystery of godliness,” 1 Tim. iii. 16. TIjis passage, I presume, Mr. Marshall had in his view, when he pitched upon a Title for his book. And this passage will render it superior to all censure ; uneXceptionaMy just and proper.
t Sec this recommendation at the end of this letter.
j I Cor. xi 20.
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presents, nominate and depute Mr. Marshall, to supply my lack of service’
Mr- Marshall expresses my thoughts; he prosecutes my scheme* »nd hot only pursues the same end; but proceeds in the same way. I shall therefore rejoice in the prospect of having the Gospel Mystery of Sandification stand as a fourth volume to Theron and Aspasio— Might I be allowed, without the charge of irreverence, to use the beautiful image of an inspired writer, I could with great satisafction say, “If this be a wall, that will build upon it a palace of ivory; if this be a door, that will inclose it with boards of cedar.”* • „
Mr Marshall represents true holiness, as consisting in the love of God, and the love of man,‘—that unforced, unfeigned, and most rational love of God, which arises from a discovery of his unspeakable mercy and infinite kindness to us ; that cordial, disinterested, and universal love to man, which flows from the possession of a satisfactory and delightful portion in the Lord Jehovah. These duties, of love to our Creator and our fellow creatures, are regarded as the sum and substance of the moral law; as the root from which all true branches of pure and undefiled religion spring—Holiness, thus stated, is considered, not as the means, but as a part, a distinguished part of our salvation; or rather as the very central point, in which all the means of grace, and all the ordinances of religion, terminate.
Man, in a natural state, is absolutely incapable of practising this holiness, or enjoying this happiness.—If you ask, what is meant by a natural state? It isthat state, in which we are under the guilt of ■in and the curse of the law; are subject to the power of Satan, and influenced by evil propensities.—From this state none are released, but by being united to Christ, or. as the apostle speaks, by *’ Christ dwelling in the heart through faith,” Eph. iii Vtt ‘Faith, according to Mr. Marshall, is a real pe. suasion, that God is pleased to give Christ and his salvation j to gi\e him freely, without any recommending qualifications, or preparatory conditions; to give him not to some sinners only, but to me a sinner in particular.—It is likewise an actual receiving of Christ, with the bent tils, priwleges, and promises of the gospel; in pursuance of the divine * Cant viii. 9. ””
gift, and on no other warrant than the divine grant.—This last office is particularly insisted on, as and essential part, or as the principal act of faith. To perform which, there is no rational, no possible way i unless, as our author declares, we do, in some measure, persuade and assure ourselves* that Christ and his salvation are oms.
As faith is such a “persuasion of the heart, and such a reception of Christ, it assures the soul of salvation by its ovin act; antecedent to all reflection on its fruit or effects, on marks and evidence j it assures the soul of acquittance from guilt, and reconciliation to God : ot a title to the everlasting inheritance, and of grace sufficient for every case of need. By the exercise of this faith, and the enjoyment of thts<blessings we are sanctifieds conscience is pacified, and the heart purified; we are delivered from the dominion of sin, disposed to holy tempers, and furnished ibr a holy practice
Here, 1 apprehend, our author will appear singular. This is the place in which he seems to go quite out of the common road The generality of serious people look upon these unspeakable blessing as tbe reward of holiness; to be received, after we have sincerely practised universal holiness : not as necessary,.previously necessary, to perform any act of true holiness. This is the stumbling-block, which our legal minds, dim with prejudice, and swolen with pride, will hardly get over. However, these endowments of our new state are, in our author’s opinion, the effectual, and the only effectual expedient, to produce sanctification They are the very method which the eternal Spirit has ordained, for “our bringing forth those fruits of righteousness, which are, by Jesus Christ, unto the praise and
• It is not, fey this expression affirmed, or insinuated, that we are able to produce faith in ourselves by any power of our own. This self-sufficiency the author has professedly and frequently disclaimed , asserting, that ” the Spirit of God habitually disposes and inclines our hearts to a ‘right performance of this most important act.‘1 This manner of speaking is used, I imagine, for two reasons: To point out the first and chief work, which we are to be doing, incessantly and assiduously, till our Lord come; to remind us Unit we must not expect to have faith wrought in us, by some fatality of supernatural operation, without any application or endeavour of I’ll* Own; but that we must make it our diligent endeavour, and
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glory of God.”f Whereas, if there be any appearances of virtue, or any efforts of obedience, which spring not from these motives and means of practice, Mr. Marshall treats them as reprobate sitter. lie cannot allow them the character of gospel holincts.
This is the plan, and these are the leatling sentiments, of the ensung treatise To establish or defend them, is not my aim. This i« attempted, and, I think, executed in the work itself. My aim is, •nly to exhibit the most distinguished principles, in one short sketch . and clear point of view; that the reader may the more easily remember them, and by this key enter the more perfectly into the writer’s meaning. Let him that is spiritual judge ;* and reject or admit, as each tenet shall appear to coi respond with (he infallible word. Only let candour, not rigour, fill the chair; and interpret an unguarded expression, or a seemingly inconsistent sentence, by the general tenor of the discourse.
We are not to expect much pathos of address, or any delicacy ofcomposition. Jlere the gospel-di; mond is set, not in gold, but in^ steel; not where it may display the most sprightly beam, or pi.ur a flood of brilliancy; but where it may do the most signal service, and afford a fund of usefulness. Neither is th’u hook so particularly calculated for careless insensible sinners, as for those who are awaken, *d into a solicitous attention to their everlasting interests; who are earnestly inquiring, with the Philippian jajlor, “what shall 1 do to he saved i”f or passionately crying, in the language gf the apostle, “O wretched man tliat 1 am I who sha|l deliver me from the body of this death If there he any sueh, as no doubt there are many, ‘rt the christian world, I would say with regard to them, as the Israelitish captive said concerning Jier. illustripus but a/Bicted master, “would God roy master were with the prophet that is in Samaria ; for he would recover him of his leprosyO that such persons were acquainted with the doctrines, and influenced by the directions contained in this treatise 1 they would, under the divine blessing, recover them from their distress, and restore them to their tranquillity; they .would ” comfort their hearts, and thereby establish them in every good word and work.||
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• 1 Cor. ii. 15. t Acts i. SO. | Rom vii. 24. § 2 Kings v. 3f Phil. i. 11. || 2’lhess. ii. \7.
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But I am going- to anticipate wt. J ’! c to!: w: jr extract spes..’ I shall therefore only add my hearty w.sMes.t utyou n\ .»-:ct with, encouragement and success, in tie publication oft. is tru. va.’-i :i>e piece. Since there is, in tliis instance, an evident cof.neu ■■. 1.1 w Jen jour private interest aodth* general good ; I tiling y.ju’m ■ ><• ;.u m’Ui’ yourself the approbation and acceptance of the pui/.:; an _•<«, -v , . assuredly have all the support and assistance th. t c» i h; ^.>.-” > Sir, your humble servant,
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Weston Faval, Nov. 5, 1756.
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Mr. Hervey’s Recommendation of Mr. Marshall in :iia Theroa and Aspasior edit. Hi. vol.’ ii. p. oJ6« See it also in his works in octavo, voL iii. p. 589.
“It is with great pleasure and without any diffidence thatl refer my readers t < Mr Marshall’s Treatise on Sanctification; wliich I shafl not recommend in the style of a critic, nor like a person of taste, but with all the simplicity of the weakest christian; I mean, from ray own experience. It has been made one of die most useful books to my own heart. I scarce ever fail to receive spiritual consolation and strength from the perusal of it: and was I to be banished into some desolate island, possessed of on 1) two books, besides my Bible, this should be one of the two, perhaps the jirtt that I would choose.
“Should any person, hitherto a stranger to the work, purchase it on thisrocommendation, I must desire to sug’gest one cautjonr that be be not surprised, if in_thc beginning, be meets with something new, and quite out of the common road; or, if surprised, , that ha would not be offended, but calmly and attentively proceed. He will find the author’s design opening itself by degrees, “lie will discern more and more the propriety cf his method. And what mighl, -A. first, appear Bke a stumbiing-block;;will prove to be ‘a fair ah l ample avenue to the place of truth, to the temple of hoKiftjssv »nd •bov.-eW ef happiness.”’
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Mr. Hervey’s Recommendation and Plan for impreving Mr. Marshall’s Treatise on Sanctification.
IT appears evident, by sundry of Mr. Hervey’s Letters, particularly Letter 149, that an improvement of Mr. Marshall was intended by him, which was not got accomplished, on account of the declining state of his health. In writing to his friend, he says, ” you will wonder to see how strongly I have recommended Mr. Marshall’* Treatise on Sanctification, in the second volume of my Theron and Aspasio. It has been eminently blessed to my own soul: there is no religious treatise which I read, which does me more jrood. Pray, be so kind as execute what you proposed. Shew me how Mr. Marshall’s method may be improved; for I would gladly tread in his steps on this account, as well as on others. Any apparent obscurity in his third and fourth Direction, says he, Letter 172, does not arise from any improper manner of treating the subjects, but from the mysttiiout nature of the snbjects themselves. The remarkably instructive method of the Directions, says he, laid down by Mr. Marshall, (than whom no man, perhaps, was ever better acquainted with the human heart) for the effectual practice of holiness, as laid down and^ illnstrated by him, is truly admirable. |''' ”
The following is Mr. Hervey’s intended plan of such improvement of Mr- Marshall’s Treatise as he judged might answer the end; where, by changing the fourteen Directions, into the form of Attertitns, or Propositions, the strongest objections are enervated.*
< • ASSERTION i;> .
That practice and manner of life, which the scripture calls holi ness, righteousness, or godliness, obedience, true religion, is not at” rained by our most resolved endeavours, but is given through the knowledge of him that has called us to glory and virtue.
Astert. II. No man can love God till he knows him, nor till he knows him to be his everlasting friend. Therefore, the spring of true holiness, is a well-grounded persua.-:on of our reconciliation
- See Mr. Hervey’s Works, Vol. IV. p. 429—432;
with God, and of our future enjoyment of the everlasting1 heavenly happiness, and for sufficient strength given in him for all that he calls us unto.’
Assert. III. These endowments, so necessary to the obedience’of love, are continued in the fulness of Christ, and are enjoyed only by union and fellowship with him.
Aisert. IV. The means or instruments whereby the Spirit of Goo\ accomplished! our union with Christ, and our fellowship with him, in all holiness, are the gospel, whereby Christ entereth into our hearts, begetteth us to the faith whereby we actually receive Chris^ himselfi with all his fulness^ unto the hope of eternal life by him. And thus, by the influence of the spirit of trm\h, we unfeitrnedly believe the gospel, an3 also believe on Christ, as he is revealedi and; freely promised to us therein, for all his salvation.
Alien. V. The practice of true holiness is not attained by any endeavours of our natural state! but is a blessingof our ne w state givenj in Jesus Christy and partook of by union and fellowship with Christ; through faith.
Assert. VI. Those that endeavour to perform sincere obedience, t» »U the commands of Christ, as the condition whereby they are ta procure for themselves a right and title to salvation, and a good, ground on him for the same, do seek their salvation by the works, of” tlie lawj and not by the faith of Christ, as he is revealed in the gos”peTTahd they shall never be able to perform sincerely any true holjr. ebedience by all such endeavours.
Assert. VII. We are not to imagine, that our hearts and livesflrost fcj changed frx>m sin to holiness, in any measure, before^ we laaj;, safely venture to trust on Christ, for the sure enjoyment of himself, and his salvation.
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Assert. VIII. True holiness of hear^and Ufe^ hath its ^uje ord<r
^af^.S^r^H*^ ^.^M^fSS S9^r^ Christ, jus
tion, and the gift of the Holy Ghost. It is not therefore to be expected, but in that order, as what accompanies salvation.
Assert. IX. It is only by the comforts cf the gospel, revealing a just God and Saviour, that God works in us to will and to do of his good gleasure.
Assert. X. The comforts of the gospel, necessary to christian obedience, contain sufficient grounds of assurance of our salvation, not because we believe, but in a way of immediate trust and confidence. Therefore, instead of seeking other methods of peace and holiness, we must endeavour to believe or trust on Christ confidently; persuading and assuring ourselves, accordingto the divine declarations, that God freely gives to us an interest in Christ and his salvation, according to his gracious promise)
Assert. XI. It is therefore belonging to the practical part of the christian life, to maintain the same immediate trust and confidence, in dependence on the divine faithfulness, not to suffer us to be confounded, that so our enjoyment of Christ, union and fellowship with him, may be continued and increased in us.
Assert. XII. The scripture calls upon Christians to walk no longer according to the principles, or means of practice, that belong unto the natural or original state «f man, but only according to that new state, given in Christ, which we receive by faith, and the principles, and means of practice, that properly belong thereunto j and to strive to continue and increase in such a manner of practice.
Asiert. XIII. All ordinances of divine appointment, for the establishment and increase of our faith and love, are to be considered, only in this way of believing in Christ, and walking in him, according to this new state given in him.
Assert. XIV. That we may be confirmed in holiness, only by be”eving m’ChriSt,1 and walking in him by faith, according to the forrtions, we’irfay take encouragement from the great advaa» this way, and excellent properties of it.
GOSPEL MYSTERY
or
SANCTIFICATION
OPENED,