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tion before God, is an acknowledgment of defect which destroys all claim to eternal life, since it is written, that he who offends in one point is guilty of all, and the holiness of God is such, as to forbid his receding from the strictness of the requirement Do this, and live.' A personal interest in the Saviour, whereby are ensured to us every spiritual and eternal blessing, is therefore the only effectual cause.

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Fourthly,Of Faith which faith is the gift of God; yet acquired in hearing and reading his word; and in answer to humble persevering prayer. This faith is wrought in us by the Spirit of God, and gives➡

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us afore unto glory. Such, it is conceived, forms a correct, though brief statement, of Christianity, as comprehending the great doctrines so constantly taught and enforced by Christ and his Apostles, the doctrines of original and actual sin; justification by faith; regeneration by the Holy Spirit; adoption into the family of God; personal progressive sanctification; and full and eternal salvation. According, then, to this view of divine truth, the Christian indeed must be a peculiar character. He must have been humbled under a sense of his guilt and depravity; he must have fled from the wrath to come 'for refuge to the hope set before him' in the atonement, intercession, and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ; he must have seen the equity of the requirement to become a new creature, and felt his need of the Holy Spirit, both to quicken him from a death in trespasses and sins,1 and to raise him to newness of life." He must have sought these blessings by earnest and instant prayer;" in patiently searching, and sincerely embracing the word of God, and in diligently using all the means of grace. Having obtained pardon, and peace, and strength, he is induced and enabled to shun the paths of vanity and sin,

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"Ezek. xxxvi. 1, 4, 14; Collect for 9th Sunday after Trinity. Rom. ix. 23., xiv. 17; Gal. vi. 8; Col. i. 8, 12. Article xvii, Collect for Sunday after Ascension-day. Eph. ii. 2, 3. Gal, ii. 16; John i. 13, iii. 3, 5. John i. 12; Eph. i. 5; Gal. iv. 6 ; Heb. xii. 14; 1 Thess. v. 23. 1 John x. 28; Pet. i. 3, 5; Heb. v. 9. 1Rom. vii. 9, 24. Heb. vi. 18; 1 Pet. ii. 24, 25 John ii. 1, 2; Heb. vii. 25. Rev. xxi, 27; Ezek. xviii. 31, 323 Rom. xii. 1, 2; 2. Cor. v. 17. Eph. ii. 1, 5; John vi. 63 "Rom. vi. 4, 11. Ezek. xxxvi. 37; Matt. vii, 7, 11. John

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and to run the way of God's commandments with alacrity and perseverance; not as one who, like a bond servant," is working for a reward from the most selfish considerations; but as one who, like a child towards a beloved parent, is actuated by the most ingenuous dispositions. His life is a life of penitence, and of love.x His penitence is daily excited by a sense of his deficiences, both in the inward graces of his soul, and the outward tenor of his conduct; his faith is kept in exercise by a sense of his daily need of pardoning mercy, and sanctifying grace ;z and his love prompts the enquiry― 'What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits a conferred on me, in the pardon of sin-in the gift of his spirit-in the sense of his favour-in the hope of his glory. This is an enquiry which leads him to renounce the maxims of the world, as at variance with the will of his heavenly Father," which prepares him to pass through honour and dishonour, though evil report and good report, in the performance of every good work, and which fills him with all those graces and fruits of righteousd whereby the moral image of the Saviour is reflected in his people - the honour and glory of God promoted in the worldf-the souls of his fellow creatures benefitted and a meetness for the inheritance of the Saints in light matured and perfected ;h so that notwithstanding his constant struggle against sin and corruption

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within him, and his natural weakness and insufficiency, and his total renunciation of all dependence on himself, and of all claim of merit in any of his services; he actually is the only character distinguished for real piety and usefulness.1 ́ Where nothing of this charac ter is formed, there can be no hope of salvation; and every consideration which the shortness of time, and the duration of eternity can excite, urges an immediate com-, pliance with the divine admonition," "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and will abundantly pardon."

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All agreed that this was a remarkable instance of the conviction produced upon a mind which had long been bewildered, and contained an admirable summary of divine truth.

Each of them requested a copy, which Charles promised they should have permission to copy when they pleased." Near eleven o'clock, the party now bidding each other a cordial good night, they retired to their own rooms.

¡ Gal. v. 17. 1 2 Cor. iii. 5.

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CHAPTER XLII.

CHARLES'S DEPARTURE

FROM COLLEGE, AND ENTRANCE

ON HIS TUTORSHIP.

THERE is nothing more interesting in the whole course of our lives than the completion of a certain career, and the entering upon a new course of our existence; whether it be emancipating from school into an apprenticeship-from college into the tutor's employment, the clergyman's holy office, or the lawyer's profession. This was Charles's interesting situation, anticipating every day the novelties of his new employment, in which all that he had acquired was about to be brought into action, as the tutor of Mr. Whiteden's family. And here I would make a remark: how do our passions blind us to worldly interests! Charles had, through going two vacations to assist a clerical friend in his school, formed an intimacy with a young nobleman, who had made him the fairest promises of future promotion, should he arrive at his title. He kept up his correspondence with him for some time; but so deeply was his mind and heart interested in the people of the happy valley, that he never once entertained the idea of applying to his young noble friend to recommend him as tutor to some family of title, whence he might have climbed to wealth and honours. But should this history be continued, their friendship will be seen to awake from a long oblivion of fifteen years.

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