laudable Practice

In this week's reading from ' The Invalidity of a Late, or Deathbed Repentance ', Taylor explicitly sets out "the absolute necessity of holy living", defined by "all those Commandments in Scripture": The second generall consideration is, The necessity, the absolute necessity of holy living, God hath made a Covenant with us, that we must give up our selves, bodies and souls, not a dying, but a living, and healthfull sacrifice. He hath forgiven all our old sins, and we have bargained to quit them, from the time that we first come to Christ, and give our names to him; and to keep all his Commandements. We have taken the Sacramentall oath, like that of the old Romane Militia, we must beleeve, and obey, and do all that is commanded us, and keep our station, and fight against the flesh, the world, and the devil, not to throw away our military girdle, and we are to do what is bidden us, or to die for it, even all that is bidden us, according to our power.  For,...

From Richard Warner's   The Sermon on the mount; in five discourses  (1840) - five sermons preached "on several successive Sunday afternoons" - a statement of why faith must bear fruit in love: the seat of true religion, is in the heart: where repentance for past sin: Faith in the only Saviour: the spirit of holiness: and the gospel grace of brotherly love; for ever dwell - unseen, indeed, by mortal eye, and visible only to the all seeing eye of God - but - made manifest to man, outwardly, and beautifully; in the substantial form of acts of repentance; faith: hope: and charity - in tokens of sorrow for numberless demerits: in a zealous exercise of "good works": and in earnest longings, desires, and strivings, to imitate, towards our brethren in the flesh, (though in an infinitely less degree) the unfathomable; unbounded; and impartial, mercy, compassion, and love, of "our Father which is in Heaven" - the most glorious of his eternal attributes: and (to...

From Richard Warner's   The Sermon on the mount; in five discourses (1840) - five sermons preached "on several successive Sunday afternoons" - from the first sermon, a clear statement of the Scriptural teaching that "the practice of the precepts of the Gospel" is "a condition of everlasting salvation": Fully convinced, myself, of the high duty incumbent upon the Ministers of the Gospel, of not "shunning to declare" unto their hearers, "the whole counsel of God": deeply feeling (I humbly trust,) the responsibility which rests upon the Preacher of God's word, of "keeping himself pure from the blood of all men", by rightly dividing the word of truth, "and holding up moral righteousness", - (or the practice of the precepts of the Gospel, embodied in a life of piety, virtue, sobriety, honesty, and brotherly love,) as well as Faith, to the solemn attention of his congregation - assured in my conscience, that, with...