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70 for? one shall be disposed to confess to God our sins & implore his merciful forgiveness. And to beget in as this proper disposition a variety of means & advantages are afforded - the Word, sabbaths & ordinances & the light & power of the holy spirit. The spirit is commissioned to convince us of sin, of righteousness & the judgment to come. To set before the mind the penalties & tenors attend.g disobedience to convince of the holiness of the law that demands supreme & perpetual love & obedience & to show the sinner that he has offended

 3. To worship God acceptably, is to worship him in faith. Believ.g in his being speafections? & confiding in his Mercy. He that cometh to God must believe that he is. Without faith it is impossible to please him. Without this lin.g? principle, which implies a knowledge of God, as a being of spotless purity & perfection & a love to him for his whole character & delight to serve him, without such an operative faith in God, our Worship & external devotion is but as a lifeless careass? & is rejected.
 4. Sav.g faith in God is inseperable from a saving or justify.g faith in X. He is the only Mediator between God & man & as such he must be believed, & confided in. Ye believe in God, says our Lord, to his disciples, believe also in me. For we are justified & accepted only thro' his perfect righteousness & mediation.  Thro' him God is reconciling sinners to himself & can be just & the justifier of the ungodly. For X has magnified the law & made it honorable & brought in everlasting righteousness. As a consequence of this sav.g faith in X & in God & in an insepera[ble]