Sparkles of Glory; Or, Some Beams of the Morning Star ... Book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: what order and subserviency to place the law, as it is in a minis- tery of letter, when as the Infant Christian, in the first discovery of Christ or Free Grace, looks upon all Ministrations below him as legal, and so is carried out to op- pose them too disorderly. A Discovery of Duties and Works. SOME say that duties and works are fruits of faith and c.ai. 5. 22. of the habits of grace in us, and Mat 7 'is are ne conformity of a Christian Mat. 5. i0. to the Commandments and Laws " Jo.2s' of God revealed in Scriptures, and that duties are to be done because i Tim. e. commanded, and that they are such n'b i0. ways and means as God hath ap- 24. pointed a Christian to walk in to Tiris. salvation; and that according as these are performed more or less i Cor ,, strictly a Christian ought to judge ' himself or approve himself, and 5. that Christians are to wait upon God in duties for the Spirit and for all other discoveries of himself thus the Protestant in general. Others say that the duties and works of a Christian flow from the Rom. 5. t. Spirit of God, of love and of adop- c,,i'/4- tion, else they are but the perform- )4. ances and obedience of servants, "'5. b not of sons and such as are born of God. That the mere Commandments or letter of Scripture is not a Zom Rom.,i to a Christian why he should walk ' in duties, but the law written in our hearts, the law of life; and Rom. r. this is the difference of duties and '''' performances under the mere Old Testament dispensation and the New, or pure Gospel or new Covenant, the one or that of Moses was a Ministery from without, that of Christ from within, and that duties in the letter are but Images and figures of what the spiritual man doth act from that [/"e of Christ in him, not as things commanded him, nor in relation ...Read More