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Ezekiel 16:63
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:
1.
in our natural state
2.
in the freeness and richness of the Lord’s grace
3.
in our perverse and ungrateful
returns
1.
Here is good news – the Lord leads those who are self-condemned to hope he may be pacified.
1.1
He can consistently with his glory for Christ has died.
1.2
He will – for this very reason Jesus is preached.
Good news:
(i)
for convinced sinners
(ii)
for backsliders – in heart and life
2.
A sense of pardoning mercy, humbles and confounds – and stops the mouth.
2.1
as to boasting (Paul)
2.2
complaining (David – 2 Samuel 16)
2.3
despising others. The want of this observable in the Pharisee (Galatians 6:1) [
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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,
1.
you are ashamed
2.
you dare not repine
3.
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
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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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