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The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience, although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men inexcusable; yet are they not sufficient to give that knowledge of God and his will which is necessary unto salvation.
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Although the gospel be the only outward means of revealing Christ and saving grace, and is, as such, abundantly sufficient thereunto; yet that men who are dead in trespasses may be born again, quickened or regenerated, there is moreover necessary an effectual insuperable hwork of the Holy Spirit upon the whole soul, for the producing in them a new spiritual life; without which no other means will effect i their conversion unto God. (h Psa 110:3; 1Co 2:14; Eph 1:19-20; i Joh 6:44; 2Co 4:4,6)
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All things in Scripture are not alike mplain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all; yet those things which are necessary to be known, believed and observed for salvation, are so nclearly propounded and opened in some place of Scripture or other, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of ordinary means, may attain to a sufficient understanding of them. (m2Pe 3:16; n Psa 19:7; 119:130)
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Q. Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God? A. No mere man since the Fall is able in this life perfectly to keep the commandments of God (Ecc 7:20; 1Jo 1:8, 10; Gal 5:17), but doth daily break them in thought, word, or deed (Gen 4:5; 7:21; Rom 3:9-21; Jam 3:2-13).
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Q. What is faith in Jesus Christ? A. Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace (Heb 10:39) whereby we receive and rest upon Him alone for salvation, as He is offered to us in the gospel (Joh 1:12; Isa 26:3-4; Phi 3:9; Gal 2:16).39 Q. What is repentance unto life? A. Repentance unto life is a saving grace (Act 11:28) whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin (Act 2:37-38) and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ (Joe 2:12; Jer 3:22), doth, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God (Jer 31:18-19; Eze 36:31), with full purpose of and endeavour after new obedience (2Co 7:11; Isa 1:16-17).40 Q.
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And that in this backsliding day, we might not spend our breath in fruitless complaints of the evils of others; but may everyone begin at home, to reform in the first place our own hearts, and ways; and then to quicken all that we may have influence upon, to the same work that if the will of God were so, none might deceive themselves, by resting in, and trusting to, a form of godliness, without the power of it, and inward experience of the efficacy of those truths that are professed by them.
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And verily there is one spring and cause of the decay of religion in our day, which we cannot but touch upon, and earnestly urge a redress of; and that is the neglect of the worship of God in families, by those to whom the charge and conduct of them is committed. May not the gross ignorance, and instability of many; with the profaneness of others, be justly charged upon their parents and masters; who have not trained them up in the way wherein they ought to walk when they were young? but have neglected those frequent and solemn commands which the Lord hath laid upon them so to catechize, and instruct them, that their tender years might be seasoned with the knowledge of the truth of God as revealed in the Scriptures; and also by their own omissions of prayer, and other duties of religion in their families, together with the ill example of their loose conversation, have inured them first to a neglect, and then contempt of all piety and religion?
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Q. What is the sixth commandment? A. The sixth commandment is, “Thou shalt not kill” (Exo 20:13). Q. What is required in the sixth commandment? A. The sixth commandment requireth all lawful endeavours to preserve our own life (Eph 5:28-29) and the life of others (1Ki 18:4).
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The distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience to him as their creator, yet they could never have attained the reward of life but by some voluntary condescension on God's part, which he hath been pleased to express by way of covenant.
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They who upon pretence of Christian liberty do practice any sin, or cherish any sinful lust, as they do thereby pervert the main design of the grace of the gospel q to their own destruction, so they wholly destroy rthe end of Christian liberty, which is, that being delivered out of the hands of all our enemies, we might serve the Lord without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our lives. ( q Rom 6:1-2; rGal 5:13; 2Pe 2:18,21)
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Although temporary believers, and other unregenerate men, may vainly deceive themselves with false hopes and carnal presumptions of being in the favour of God and state of salvation, awhich hope of theirs shall perish; yet such as truly believe in the Lord Jesus, and love him in sincerity, endeavouring to walk in all good conscience before him, may in this life be certainly assured b that they are in the state of grace, and may rejoice in the hope of the glory of God, which hope shall never make them cashamed
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