The Works Of The Rev. Andrew Fuller (volume 8)

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1825. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... of grace, free, sovereign, and great grace, if we are brought to love him, and 90 escape the awful curse; and for this we ein never be sufficiently thankful. ON SPIRITUAL DECLENSION, AND THE MEANS Of REVIVAL. It is a matter of complaint too common, as well as too well founded, that the bulk of Christians in the present age are very deficient in spirituality, and come far short of the primitive Christians in a close walk with God. We lament over our unfruitfulness, our want of growth in grace and increasing conformity to Christ. Complaints of this kind, if they arise from the integrity of our hearts, are necessary and proper; but complaining alone will not effect a cure. We may sigh, and go backward to the last period of our lives. One necessary mean of effecting a cure, is to inquire into the cause or causes of the complaint. An investigation of this nature may, through a divine blessing, answer some good end upon the minds of those whose desire it is to be searched and tried, that every evil way may be detected. h is not here intended to inquire into all the different causes of unfruitfulness, but only to point out a few of those which are the toost obvious. That which I shall insist upon in this paper is, The Want Of A Proper Regard To The Word Op God, It has been the pleasure of God to magnify his word more than all his name; and if we are under the influence of a right spirit, we shall magnify it too. It is by the knowledge of its sacred truths that we ixefretd from the slavery of sin, and our spirits sanctified. In it, as in a gtoss, we behold the glory of the Lord, and are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, by the Spirit of God. In almost all the remarkable declensions in the church of God, a neglect of the scriptures has been at the root. O...