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  JANUARY 22. 1678. RENOVATION OF YOUTH.
  by Jane Lead
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Summary: Jane Lead's sermon emphasizes the importance of prayer and
faith in achieving spiritual renewal amidst the challenges of aging and
sin.

Topics: "Spiritual Growth", "Persevering Faith"
Scripture References: Psalm 90:12, Proverbs 4:23, Isaiah 40:31, 2 Corinthians 4:16

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Jane Lead preaches about the importance of persevering in faith and
prayer, especially in the face of challenges and the passing of time.
She emphasizes the need to focus on spiritual growth and endurance,
likening our bodies to fading flowers but our spirits to be renewed in
strength through unwavering belief. Jane Lead urges her listeners to
guard against the 'Sickness of Sin' as the ultimate threat, assuring
that with a perfect heart and steadfastness, God will renew their
strength and vitality beyond comprehension.

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In the fore part of the Night, all internal Powers of my Mind were
introverted, and acted forth in Prayer, for our Spirits going forward in
the Vineyard work, and to be inabled to indure the heat of the Day in
it. And I was considering, how our Days were run, and our Bodies like
Flowers were fading and declining, having daily the foregoing strokes of
Mortal Death upon them.

Therefore I had a deep sense and concern for my self and Aged Friend,
herein to take all advantage of the present time, lest we should be
prevented of what we so much have desired to reach unto.

Being vehement in Prayer for it, I had this Word, If ye do believe for
it with a perfect Heart, and wait and turn not aside, though your Bones
as a Potsheard be dried up, yet Marrow and Strength shall be renewed in
another degree of Youth, then what hath been comprehended. Therefore
keep your selves only from the Sickness of Sin, and you need fear
nothing else.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/jane-lead/january-22-1678-renovation-of-youth/
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