Or, A Practical DISCOURSE OF A Believer's Life, Derived from CHRIST, AND Resolved into CHRIST. Being the Substance of several SERMONS Preach'd by the Author upon his Recovery of By the late Revd Mr. JOHN GAMMON. The FIFTH EDITION, Corrected and Recommended by several Divines. Col. iii. 4. When Chrift, who is our Life, Shall apptor, LONDON: Printed by T. R. in the Year 1738. The Epistle Dedicatory. To the little Flock of Christ, over whom the Holy Ghost hath made me Overfeer. The Father of Mercies, and God of all Grace, who hath called you to his Eternal Glory by Christ fefus, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, fettle you, and make known to you that Mystery, which from the beginning of the World hath been hid in God, who created all by Jesus Christ. I Beloved in the Lord, Have in some Measure been acquainted with the longing Defire of most of you to have these Sermons published, by whose Importunity I have been prevailed with to Print them, againft many Struglings, and much Unwillingness in myself to go forwards with the Work; for fome of you well know how much I was fet against the Printing of them, and that for feveral Reafons. First, Knowing that there are plenty of good Books, the Works of worthy learned Men, extant: That there was no need of my unworthy Labours. Secondly, Knowing how little the best of Books are valued by most. Thirdly, Knowing the Scorn and Contempt not only of prophane and wicked Persons, but many that profefs a great Zeal for God, who contemn those principal GospelTruths, Justification by Christ alone: But if Perfons were truly wakened, they would be of the A 2 Mind |