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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON LXXVI. . YOUTH CLEANSING HIS WAY. Psalm cxix. 9. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way ? By taking heed thereto, according to thy word. We are born in a state of depravity; our affections by nature are alienated from God, and we are prone to evil. This isr% truth that does not rest merely upon the unequivocal testimony of the scriptures, though nothing can be more explicit than their language on this point: it is proved also by daily observation and universal experience. It is recognised in all the restraints, the punishments, the vigilance, that are found necessary in the education of those, even of the tenderest years. But this depravity, perceptible even in infancy, becomes more perceptible in youth. The seeds of evil germinate as we advance in life; and not only the heart, but the way, the general course of conduct, becomes polluted. Not that all, who are not the subjects of renewing grace, are equally sinful. Some rush to excesses at which more modest sinners tremble: such are those young persons who pourforth their blasphemies against the God of heaven, and deride the faith of the Christian, and the sacrifice of the great Redeemer: such are those who early plunge into every scene of vice, and before they have attained the years of manhood, drink the cup of sensual pleasure to its dregs: such are those whose conversation is marked by obscenity or profanity; who alternately wound modesty, and sport with the name of the tremendous God, or in profane levity imprecate upon themselves that damnation which slutnbereth not. Though the way of ihese and similar heaven-daring youth has a peculiar aw- fulness and depth of guilt, yet it is not they alone who need to be cleansed: it is necessary, indispensably necessary, for all who have not experi...
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