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{Sermons on Ephesians 5:15
The Doctrine Explained
A Summary Description of These Precisians}
Thus far, I have given you a description of the Scripture Precisians, summarized as follows: They are sincere godly people, people who fear God. They are inwardly renewed after the image of God. They are adventurers bound for another world, on the way of life, and walking onward carefully and heedfully in that way. Their aim and endeavor is to live, not according to the wills and lusts of people, but according to the Word and will of God, nor according to emotion and imagination, but according to conscience. They are a people who will not make the way to Heaven narrower than it is by being scrupulous and fastidious when God has given them liberty. Nor will they make the way broader than it is by taking up looser principles or allowing themselves loose practices. Precisians dare not venture their souls upon that easy, formal, and careless external way of Christianity that most do, but are willing to make their calling sure (1 Peter 1:8–10) by walking according to the exactness of their rule and by living up to the height of their principles. They are steadfast and immovable in their holy course; they will neither be bribed off by flatteries, nor beaten off by the frowns of the world. Rather, they will retain their integrity, hold fast their holy profession, and hold on to their holy course—and this to death.
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