A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

Simeon, Charles, 1759-1836 • SECTION 332

354 Acts, Ix. 3—6. [1762.

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tages he may enjoy, receiveth not the things of th Sni it „f God, for they are foolishness unto him- njfte, ™£ 1 Pi them, because they are spiritually dLce„ed» Z tl T

treasured np in hfs mind before it ^f™ °f "''S™1 the Gospel! as a L^^^^"^0?*' "^ winch he has been rescued from a watery %£% £ ^ **

2. A convinced conscience—

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his past life in the -lass of God'Vl™ 1 hf .b^n to ™»-

and'condemned sinne 7 St without tTf ' dead.I snv« 1,^ • « u,,f i, Ai Runout the law once

I £ "' A , * rt f° th!e C°Tiaildment came> sin revived and thG A v! 1° at Zfd Whlch he had exercised in perlecuti It the Church, he saw that it was imnions in th* i i ? g

the same sins as he, " we all have nffpn^^ .JilJmea precisely and are therefore deserving of fnf , in.many thin^'

indignation: and theve^nm effect T^tV^ ^ will be to make us "site on ou breast d" cl" Tf £ " merciful to me a sinner!"] ' y' God be

3. A renewed will — [Hitherto this furious bio-ot Wl |loon *un • i • will, and the will of the chief °p est wno enf h ml^ bo, °™ >e ones, "Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do""' X ', U how ent.relyhe commits himself to the guidance of thaf t ' whom now he saw to be the Saviour of the worloV H '

fesses hnnsef ready to comolv with ,.,,. r 7° , P1'0-

given him ; and dJteJZ^tZolTnl oft' """J ^ conduct than his Saviour's will. Here i "the* o™°and'sum^t

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wounded spirit, and yet hold' fes MSS^j,* !

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