SKEL. We can know nothing of the Father, but Christ the only way to the Father the only foundation The necessity of loving Christ The evil of hating Christ The necessity of having the Spirit of Christ - SKEL. 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 " 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 .434 435 436 The importance of attending to God's ex- Against instability To return to God Do from the consideration of what he has done for us To receive the blessings of the gospel To turn to Christ as a strong-hold To come to him for living water To come to him for rest To look to him for salvation To hope in him To remind him of his promises To expect from him the pardon of all sin To accept reconciliation through him To return from a backslidden state PAGE 280 284 287 291 295 299 304 308 312 315 318 321 325 329 332 336 339 343 · 348 352 355 359 363 366 SKEL 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 II. Preceptive 458 459 460 461 162 463 464 To love the scriptures To search them with diligence *To get wisdom above all things To seek God in an obediential dependence To seek the things that are above - To enquire for the good old way To work out our salvation with fear - PAGE - To impute nothing but good to him To seek him while he may be found To prepare for the future judgment To disregard worldly things. To awake out of sleep To cast off the works of darkness To consider God's sovereignty and faithful- ness 369 372 376 379 382 385 388 393 398 401 404 409 413 428 432 434 438 442 445 451 453 455 459 462 465 468 472 475 For a Table of the TEXTS illustrated in the Skeletons, and for an In- Volume. WARNINGS. CCCXLIII. GOD'S VOICE TO SINNERS. Amos iii. 8. The lion hath roared; who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken; who can but prophesy? TH HERE is not any thing more strange and unreasonable than that utter disregard which is shewn to the word of God. If we see appearances in the sky, we can form some judgment of the weather: if we take notice of common occurrences in the world, we can draw plain and obvious conclusions from them. The prophet justly observes, that if a lion roar, we conclude he has taken, or is about to seize, his prey: if a bird be caught in a snare, we take for granted that the snare was laid with that design: if an alarm be given in a city, we suppose that there is reason for that alarm: or if any disastrous events have taken place, we consider it as ordered by an over-ruling Providence. Yet, when God speaks in his word, we imagine that there is no occasion for it, nor any need to regard it. But it becomes us to attend with reverence to all his messages, whether of wrath or mercy. Whatever he has revealed to us by his servants the prophets, he will surely do: and they are commanded to make known his determinations, "whether men will hear, or whether they will forbear." Hence the prophet Amos, desirous at once to expose the obstinacy of the unbelieving Jews, and to vindicate his own faithfulness towards them, addresses himself to their consciences in this animated expostulation, this convincing apology. To bring home his words to our own hearts, we shall consider I. What God hath spoken to us [There is no description of persons whose character God has not delineated, and whose end he has not determined. |
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