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# Title: A Discourse Concerning the True Notion Of The Lord's Supper (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 137, Stück 2; Leibn. Marg. 137)
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The First Sermon.
have all cheir Relision in erricines and papers, chinte cher are nou
completelr Furnited wich all kind or knoledse concerninq Christ;
and Wrhenther sec all cheir leares lyins aboucchem, chey chink chey
have a ∞00dIy Rock oE hnomledge and truch, and cannot possibir
miss oF the wayeoflearen; asif Relision mere nochins bui a liecle
B00k crast, amere Paper- skill.
BuLiFS. Johns rule here be po0d, we must noc judze oF our knon-
ing oF christ by our stcill in Books and Papers, buc by our lecpins ot
his Commandmenes. And chat PFear will diseover many otus (notmich.
standins alI ehis Lishe irhich e b0as oF round aboutuS) co hare no-
ching buc Ferptian Dartenels wichin uxon our Bearts.
The vulsar Tort chink chat cher leno Christ enough out ol cheir
Erecds and Cacechisms and Confestions oF F’airh: and it cher have but
a licele acquainced chemselres with chele, and likse Parrors conned che
vords ofchem, ther donbe noc but chac ther are sufticiener instruet.
ed in aIl the mysteries ot cheKingdom ofHlearen. Manr ofthemore
Jearned, il chey ean buc irangle and dispute about christ, imagine
chemselvesto beoronn great proticienes in the School oF Christ.
The greatest part oF the morid, wrhecher learned or unlearned,
chinke chac chere is no necd oF purgins and purifvins OF their heaRIS
For cherighekenomledse oF Christ and his Cospel; buc choushcheir
lives benever (0 wiched, cheir hearts never (0 Foul mithin, vetthey
may Hnow Christ sufticienelr ont oF cheir Freaciles and Dileour(es,
out oEcheir mere Syctems and Bodies oF Divinity: WhichP deny noc
cobensetul in a Cubordinate may; alchough our saviour preseribeh
his Disciples anocher method co come to che righe knomledse oF Di-
vine Truchs, by doino ot GodS will. Tre that will do my Fathers
will (Caich he) sall hnom of the Doctrine whether it be of God. He
is a erue Christian indeed, noc hechat is only book. tancht, but hethat
is Cod. tanehE; hechat hach an 2nition from the Ftoly one (25 Our A-
Dostle calech IE) that teacherh him all thines; he chac hach the Spirie
OE Christ wichin nim, chac scarcheth out the deep thines of God: For
as no man hnoweth the thines of a mansave the spirit of a man whichis
in him; even sothethines os God knomerh no manbut the Spirit of Cod.
Inte and Paper can never makce us ChristianS, can never BCTCE a
nem nacure, a livins principle in us; can never Form Christ, Or any
erue nocions oF spiricual chines, in ourhearES. The GOspel THAEneM
Lar Wrhich Christ delivered cothemorid, it is noc merelr a Terter
Wwichont us, buc a quichenine spirit wichin 18. Cold Theorems and
Maxims, dey and jejune Disputes, lean Syllogistical reasonines, could
never vec octhemselres beget the least glimple oF rrue hearenty lighe,
cheleas Cap oF Paring knomledse in any heart. AI chis is buEThC GrO-
Dinq otche poor darke spirit oF man aster Pruch, to Fnd ic out wich his
omn endeavours, and Feel ic mith his omneold and benummed hands.
Words and Syllables, irhich are buc dead chines, cannot postibly
convey che livins notions oF heavenly Truthstous. ThCSCCrCtmy-
Heries oF a Divine Lite, oF a nem Nature, oF Christ Formed in oux
heares, cher cannor be wricten or spoken, language and exprections can-
noc reach chem; neither con cher be ever truly understood, except
cheSoulit(elE BC kindled From wichin, and amakened into the liteot
them. A Painter chac vould dram à Rose, choush hie may
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