| will hearken. unto you, and ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart." Jer. xxix. 12, 13.
"I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place." Ps. cxviii. 5. "God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine |
which was delivered to you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.—But now, being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Rom. vi. 17, 18,
22, 23. |
See under Ser. II. Ex. 7; Ser. VI. Ex. 1; Ser. VII. Ex. 1 & 2.
EXTRACT III.
Prayer.
Some will get so into the popular current, that they will go to work the work of God, by the help and command of man. And I have known some say to a brother, pray! Now, what presumption! It is taking the seat of God immediately, and presuming to be God, and to be exalted above all that is called God, and worshipped. 'If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth," and not man. Should man undertake to do a single thing in God's work, without the command of God? If he does he is a fool.—My desire therefore is, that we may so sink down in this meeting, as to come to a right view of these things, and be delivered from
