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be unable to enter into his rest? "If God be for us, who shall be against us?" And that he is for us, desiring the salvation of each individual, is manifestly proved, insomuch that he designed and planned the Gospel of his Son, to satisfy the demands of his own justice, to make a way for his mercy, and "to reconcile the world unto himself." "He that spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?"

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Our baptism gives us a right to all the benefits of redemption through Christ; nor can we lose them, unless, disregarding the conditions of faith and repentance, we neglect to claim them. Come therefore boldly to the throne of grace, in the full assurance of faith, leaning on this memorable promise, "he that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." But do not, as some," turn the grace of God into lasciviousness," or carnal indolence. If the mercy of God has been so rich towards us; manifesting his love in the pardon of all transgressions, in the

k Romans, viii. 32.

removal of every thing that could "let or hinder us in running the race that is set before us, "shall not his indignation be in proportion tremendous and intolerable against such as hold the truth in unrighteousness, and presume to "neglect so great salvation?" If you indeed come to Jesus Christ, it will be not merely to escape punishment, but to be freed from sin. And this freedom you will obtain through his spirit, which will dwell within you. "Now

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any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his."1

Thus, brethren, in Jesus Christ, and him crucified, have I set before you your Zoar your city of refuge. "Haste ye, escape thither!" But if you still linger and look back upon the Gomorrah of carnal-mindedness, the strong holds of sin-" remember Lot's wife!" reached by the red right hand of the Destroyer, she stood a fearful example to all such as trifle with salvation.

1 Romans, viii. 9.

SERMON IV.

LIVING UNTO CHRIST.

2 COR. v. 15.

He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them.

"He died for all!" As by the sin of one man, Adam, ruin and death came upon all the generations of the world; so when Jesus Christ, as man, gave himself up to death to redeem the world, the blessing was as complete and as common as the mischief which it remedied. We need not now enter into that question, in its proper season neither too curious nor unprofitable, how far the merits of our Saviour and the advantages of his death extend to the heathen, who cannot hear him preached; but with regard to Christians, it may be said

confidently and distinctly that there is not one to whom eternal life is not given; not one to whom the gates of heaven are not spread open by the sacrifice of him "who died for all." Count the millions who are called by the name of Christ; who have the gospel of salvation; consider the nations, go round their borders-they are the called. They have access by a new and living way to the heavenly city forfeited by their first parent. They themselves, since they received the word of life, have heaped up to heaven a Babel of iniquities; their plains have reeked with human slaughter because of the wrath, the pride, the covetousness, of Christian brethren: their newspapers, the diaries of nations, make public daily their adulteries, their thefts, their mutual injuries, their blasphemies against "him who has called them to his marvellous light." Yet in the hand of each individual among them is laid the key of the kingdom of heaven; a fountain springs beside them in which all transgression may

be washed away. The still small voice which proclaims "on earth peace, good

will towards man," yet makes itself heard above the uproar of the violent, and the cries of the oppressed. Christ "died for all"—" the grace of God, which bringeth salvation" has covered the lands as with a flood of blessedness. Must not all then be saved? Must not all come to the inheritance which is their own by right of the purchase money laid down by him who suffered in their stead? God forbid! When the book of judgment is closed, and every living soul passes to its eternal abode, shall the thief, the extortioner, the unchaste, the drunkard, the murderer, press forward to seat themselves with martyrs, with the sanctified, on the right hand of God's throne? Who then shall be cast into the lake of fire? where is judgment? Surely if any thing can deepen the guilt of these and similar iniquities, it is the fact that they have been committed under a knowledge, or the means of knowing, the Gospel of Jesus Christ; for "that servant which knew his Lord's will and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes." These

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