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LECTURES TO PROFESSING CHRISTIANS

1 LECTURES

2 TO

3 PROFESSING CHRISTIANS.

4 DELIVERED

5 IN THE CITY OF NEW-YORK,

6 IN THE YEARS 1836 AND 1837.

7 BY CHARLES G. FINNEY.

8 FROM NOTES BY THE EDITOR OF THE NEW-YORK EVANGELIST.

9 REVISED BY THE AUTHOR.

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11 NEW-YORK:

12 JOHN S. TAYLOR, BRICK CHURCH CHAPEL,

13 OPPOSITE THE CITY HALL.

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15 1837.

16 Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1837, by

17 CHARLES G FINNEY & JOSHUA LEAVITT,

18 In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of

19 New-York.

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NEW-YORK:
SMITH & VALENTINE,
STEREOTYPERS.
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22 This is 100% Finney with no deletions or additions. It is from the original first edition printed in 1837. These lectures were edited and proofed from photocopies from the original book. My many thanks to Bill Mann, Michael and Pam Burns, Bob Borer, Paul J. DiBartolo, Eugene Detweiler, Sheila Rose, Daniel F. Smith, John Hempstead, Tom Shadle, Tim Brown and Ron Jensen for all their hard work.

23 My special thanks to Robert Wynn, who edited the whole series. Without all his hard work these lectures would not exist.

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25 CONTENTS

26 PREFACE

27 1836

28 LECTURE I - Self Deceivers

29 LECTURE II - False Professors

30 LECTURE III - Doubtful Actions are Sinful

31 LECTURE IV - Reproof, a Christian Duty

32 LECTURE V - True Saints

33 LECTURE VI - Legal Religion

34 LECTURE VII - Religion of Public Opinion

35 LECTURE VIII - Conformity to the World

36 LECTURE IX - True and False Repentance

37 LECTURE X - Dishonesty in Small Matters inconsistent with Honesty in any thing

38 LECTURE XI - Bound to know your True Character

39 1837

40 LECTURE I - True and False Conversions

41 LECTURE II - True Submission

42 LECTURE III - Selfishness not True Religion

43 LECTURE IV - Religion of the Law and Gospel

44 LECTURE V - Justification by Faith

45 LECTURE VI - Sanctification by Faith

46 LECTURE VII - Legal Experience

47 LECTURE VIII - Christian Perfection

48 LECTURE IX - Christian Perfection

49 LECTURE X - Way of Salvation

50 LECTURE XI - Necessity of Divine Teaching

51 LECTURE XII - Love the Whole of Religion

52 LECTURE XIII - Rest of the Saints

53 LECTURE XIV - Christ the Husband of the Church

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