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Ezekiel 16:63
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That thou mayst remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God. |
Preached on Sunday afternoon 7 June 1767 |
From the resemblance between the affecting description in this chapter and the believer: |
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in our natural state |
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in the freeness and richness of the Lord’s grace |
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in our perverse and ungrateful returns |
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Here is good news – the Lord leads those who are self-condemned to hope he may be pacified. |
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He can consistently with his glory for Christ has died. |
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He will – for this very reason Jesus is preached. |
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Good news: |
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for convinced sinners |
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for backsliders – in heart and life |
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A sense of pardoning mercy, humbles and confounds – and stops the mouth. |
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as to boasting (Paul) |
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complaining (David – 2 Samuel 16) |
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despising others. The want of this observable in the Pharisee (Galatians 6:1) [1] |
Here you may try the spirit you are of. Have you a hope, and are you sometimes questioning if it is right and good – if it is, |
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you are ashamed |
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you dare not repine |
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you cannot be lofty, self-willed and censorious. |
If you have some view of the beauty of this frame and are seeking it in another way – disappointment [...illegible] sinners be confounded. |
Endnotes:
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Galatians 6:1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. |
Acknowledgements:
Cowper & Newton Museum, Olney, MS 714(19), John Newton's Notebook No. 43 |
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