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DISCOURSES

ON

The following Subjects:

I MAN'S ORIGINAL STATE.
The FALL of ADAM.

III. JESUS CHRIST as a SAVIOUR.
IV. JUSTIFICATION by FAITH,
V. The SPIRIT and its FRUITS.

By NICHOLAS MANNERS.

The SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED and ABRIDGED,

I also will fhew mine opinion.

Te must be born again.

Job xxxii. 10.
John iii. 7.

LEEDS: Printed for the AUTHOR, by J. BOWLING, in Boar - Lane, and fold by J. BINNS, in Briggate; fold alfo by R. SPENCE, upon Oufe-Bridge, York, M.DCC.LXXVII,

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THE

PREFACE.

I view of the public? My answer is, I believe them F it be asked, why I expose these difcourfes to the

to be according to the truth of the gofpel. Which, if fo, the matter of them, whatever may be faid of the manner, may pafs without an apology. However, they contain the doctrine which I was convinced of, and seriously embraced above twenty years ago; and from which I have not yet feen caufe to recede. And having spent the laft feventeen years in inculcating them upon others; in which time, having gone thro' moft parts of this, and fome parts of another nation, I have not wanted occafion to try them; having met with many oppofitions from men, and read much of their reverfe in books: The iffue of which is, I am fo confirmed in the belief of them, as to be free from all fufpicion of the truth of them.

But right notions, without experimentally knowing the things fignified by them, can be but of little fervice. Orthodoxy, fo called, may pafs for christianity. with the crowd, but not in the account of God. As fuch, though falfe doctrine be deftructive, as it prevents a fight of, and profiting by the truth, and leads, to error in principle and practice; yet good doctrine, unaccompanied by the spirit of GOD, will never bring a foul to heaven. So, though I recommend thefe difcourfes on the fuppofition of their contain-. ing the truth; yet more especially I wish them to be inftrumental in fhewing men their condition as finners, and their privilege in the Saviour; what they are by nature, and what they may be by grace; that, A 2 being

being fenfible of their finful, guilty, and dangerous fate, and of the fufficiency of CHRIST to fave and fatisfy them, they may be excited to seek and receive whatfoever he has promised to give.

And, if I may be believed in a matter which concerns myself as well as others, I do profess to have profited more in the grace of God, by means of these doctrines, than I would give for a thousand fuch worlds as this. I wish all who read them may profit as much by them as I have done. They need, they can have no more, falvation being heaven's best gift. And I much pity thofe who are ftrangers and enemies to, and have no defire for fpiritual and eternal things, well knowing, that whatever their outward condition of life may be, they are unhappy now, and hell awaits them in the end.

I fend this fmall performance, fuch as it is, into the world. If it does any good, I fhall have my defire: But be this as it may, I remain nevertheless a well-wisher to all orders and degrees of men, touching things temporal, fpiritual, and eternal.

DERBY,

May 28, 1775.}

N. Manners.

P.S. I have fo corrected and amended this edition, as, I am perfuaded, will make it more agreeable to fenfible readers. I know, indeed, they are but few, compared with others. And I confefs I had much rather it had been better adapted to readers in general. I have added a little; but omitted much more; principally to reduce its fize. For whether, as fome say, A great book is a great evil," or not; yet certainly, much in little, is better.

October 2, 1776.

Man's

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