Presbyterian Church -- Sermons; Sermons, English; Theology -- Early works to 1800; Theology -- History -- 17th century
In the year 1670, another posthumous work was printed; it is entitled,
“The Sinner’s Sanctuary, being forty Sermons upon the Eighth chapter of
the Epistle to the Romans, from the first verse down to the sixteenth.”
The Publishers in their preface acquaint us, that they were encouraged to
print it because the former treatise was universally received by the
intelligent and judicious in the principles of the Christian faith. In
this book, as in all his other writings, the readers will perceive a pure
stream of piety and learning running through the whole, and a very
peculiar turn of thought, that exceeds the common rate of writers on this
choice part of the Holy Scriptures. Dr. Horton, Dr. Manton, and others,
have printed a great number of useful practical discourses, but so far as
he goes, he is not exceeded by any of them.
A third treatise was printed at Edinburgh, in the year 1671. The title of
it is, “Fellowship with God, being twenty eight Sermons on the First
Epistle of John, Chap. 1st, and Chap. 2d, Verses 1, 2, 3.” In this book,
we have the true ground and foundation of attaining the spiritual way of
entertaining fellowship with the Father and the Son, and the blessed
condition of such as attain to it, most succinctly and distinctly
explained. This book was revised and published by one A. S. who, in his
preface to the reader, styles himself, his servant in the gospel of our
dearest Lord and Saviour. I need give no other commendation of it, than
that summary eulogium which that minister has left us. “In a word, (says
he,) here are to be found, convictions for atheists, piercing rebukes to
the profane, clear instructions to the ignorant, milk to the babes in
Christ, strong meat for the strong, strength to the weak, quickening and
reviving for such as faint in the way, restoratives for such as are in a
decay, reclamations and loud oyesses after backsliders to recall them,
breasts of consolation for Zion’s mourners. And to add no more, here are
most excellent counsels and directions to serious seekers of fellowship
with God, to guide them in their way, and help them forward to the
attainment of that fulness of joy which is to be had in fellowship with
the Father and the Son.”
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