CHRISTIAN.

Being a COURSE of

Practical SER M o N s.

GAL. V. 6. For in JESUS CHRIST neither Circumcifion availeth
any thing, nor Uncircumcifion, but Faith which worketh by Love.
Roм. ii. 28. He is not a Jew, which is one outwardly, neither is that
Circumcifion, which is outward in the Flefb:

29. But be is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and Circumcifion is that
of the Heart, in the Spirit, and not in the Letter, whofe Praise is not
of Men but of GOD.

By SAMUEL WALKER, A.B.
Curate of Truro in Cornwal, and formerly of
Exeter-College in OXFORD.

The THIRD EDITION Corrected:

With a Recommendatory PREFACE by the Reverend
Mr Thomas Adam, Rector of Wintringham in Lincolnshire.

LONDON:

Printed for EDWARD DILLY at the Rose and Crown in the
Poultry, and BARNABAS THORN at Exeter.

MDCCLIX.

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TO THE ';

INHABITANTS

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TRURO.

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My Dear Friends,

1.

Have ventured, at the Inftance of fome pious Chriftians, to make public the following Discourses, which were originally intended for your Service only. The Matter of them at leaft is of vaft Importance, A 2

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and fuch as it ought to be my first Concern, that you may be experimentally acquainted with. I thought it therefore adviseable to bring them forth to the World with a Dedication to You; that whilst by this Means I fhould have Opportunity of acknowledging the Obligations you have laid on me, and in fome fort of testifying the Respect I bear you; I might alfo in a way, hardly yet attempted by me, endeavour to engage your Regards to that one Thing, which in a few. Years we shall all discover to be indeed the only Thing needful.

BRETHREN, if my Heart's Defire towards you, that ye may be Partakers

of CHRIST, makes me earnest and importunate; Is there not a Caufe, feeing your Happiness and my own are at Stake? I would not that any one of you fhould come short of entering into God's Reft: Nor can I forget the Minifterial Vows that are upon me, and how fearful

fearful my Doom, if any of you die in your Sins without Warning. For your Sakes and my own then, I beg Leave to recommend to you this Labor of Love.

IT is the Character of a CHRISTIAN, drawn as faithfully as I have been enabled to do it, from the holy Scriptures. It is not indeed a

Character which will fuit the Generality of those who call themselves by that Name: Perhaps also it may make fome, who have formed too favorable an Opinion of their religious Conduct, to be difgufted with themselves or it. But if vital CHRISTIANITY be either run down by the Torrent of Infidelity and Licentioufnefs, or be dwindling into a ceremonial Form, in the Practice of the Few who live decently and are well spoken of; it becomes the Stewards of the Mysteries of God to rife up to its Refcue. It is this has engaged me to prefent that to