Twenty-four Discourses / On Some of the Important and Interesting Truths, Duties, and Institutions, of the Gospel, and the General Excellency of the Christian Religion; Calculated for the People of God of Every Communion, Particularly for the Benefit of Pious Families, and the Instruction of All in the Things Which Concern Their Salvation

by Nathan Perkins

No immediate inspiration or miraculous teachings of the divine spirit, since the canon of scripture was closed or since the apostolic age.

1. Cor. xiii. 8. Charity never faileth; but whether there be prophecies they shall fail, whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge it shall vanish away.

[DISCOURSE XIX.]

Sinless perfection unattainable in this life.

1. John, i. 8. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

[DISCOURSE XX.]

The Apostle’s caution to all Christians—be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines, or the danger of instability, and pernicious tendency of error.

Hebrews, xiii. 9. Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines.

[DISCOURSE XXI.]

The general excellency of the Christian Religion.