DISCOURSES

ON

The following Subjects:

I. On Man's Original State.
II. On the Fall of Adam.
III. On Jefus Chrift as a Saviour.
IV. On Juftification by Faith.
V. On the Spirit and its Fruits.

By NICHOLAS MANNERS.

I alfo will fhew mine opinion. Job xxxii. 1o.
Ye muft be born again. John i. 7.

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Printed for the AUTHOR,
By N. NICK SON in Blakeftreet
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M.DCC.LXXV.

RODLEIRAL

28.3 1900

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PRE F A C E.

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'F it be afked, why I expofe thefe difcourfes to the view of the public? My answer is, I believe them 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 through 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 chriftianity 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 not be effectual, will never bring a foul to heaven. So, though I recommend thefe difcourfes on the fuppofition of their containing the truth; yet more especially I wish them to be inftrumental in fhewing men their condition as finners, and their previlege in the Saviour;

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