THE NECESSITY OF COMING TO SOME CERTAINTY WHETHER WE ARE IN THE WAY OF SALVATION OR NOT.
O Holy Spirit of Grace! I implore thy affiftance, that I may speak upon this important subject, so as to be understood, so as to touch the heart, so as to edify those that shall hear me. And grant that may never forget to try and examine my own faith by those marks which I propose to others; and that I may be an example in faith and life; for Jefus Chrift's fake. Amen.
EXAMINE YOURSELVES, WHETHER YE BE IN THE FAITH;a [THAT IS, WHETHER YE BE TRUE CHRISTIANS, AND IN THE WAY OF SALVATION?-WHETHER YOUR LIVES BE ACCORDING TO YOUR PROFESSION?]
Y Christian brethren! I am going to lay before you the abfolute neceffity, as we hope for heaven, of coming to fome certainty whether we are in the way of falvation or not.
Every body muft own, that it is a matter great concern for a man to know whether his faith be fuch as it should be, fuch as will
See Matth. vii. 20, 21. John xiv. 1, 6. Acts xxiii. 1. Rom. viii. 16. 2 Cor. v. 7. Gal. vi. 3, 4. Phil. i. 27. 2 Tim. ii. 19. John iii. 21.