satisfy yourself to live as you do; for did I believe as you do, that there is such a Christ and glory as you believe there are, I would pray and live differently from what you do."

CONCLUSION.

And now, reader, in all my discourses of the method of Christ in purchasing the great salvation for us, and the way of the Spirit in applying it to God's elect, thou hast two wonders before thine eyes, either of which may astonish thy soul :

1. Behold the riches of the mercy of God, in preparing such a remedy as this for lost man! This is that which is called the great mystery of godliness, 1 Tim. iii. 16; that mystery which the prophets inquired diligently after, yea, which the angels desire to look into, 1 Pet. i. 10, 12. In this glorious mystery of redemption, that manifold wisdom of God, or that wisdom which has such admirable variety in it, is illustriously displayed, Eph. iii. 10. Yea, the contrivance of our redemption is the most glorious display of Divine love that ever was made, or can be made to the children of men; for so the apostle must be understood, when he says, God has set forth, or presented his love to man in the most engaging manner, in a way that commends it beyond all comparison to the acceptance of men, Rom. v. 8: "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners," 1 Tim. i. 15. It might be expected, that when this glorious mystery should be published by the gospel in the ears of sinners, all eyes would be withdrawn from other objects, and fixed with admiration upon Christ; all hearts would be ravished with these glad tidings, and every man pressing to Christ with the greatest zeal and diligence. But behold, instead thereof,

2. The desperate wickedness of the world in rejecting the only remedy prepared for them. This was long since foretold by the prophet: "He is despised and rejected of men;

a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not," Isa. liii. 3. His mean appearance, which should have endeared him beyond all estimation to the souls of men, since it was for their sakes that he emptied himself of all his glory, lays him under contempt; he is looked on as the very offcast of men. When his love to man had emptied him of his riches, the wickedness of men loaded him with contempt; and as prophesied of him, so it was, and at this day is sadly verified all the world over, for the pagan world have no knowledge of him; they are lost in darkness. God has suffered them to walk in their own ways, Acts xiv. 16. The Mohammedans, who overspread so great a part of the world, reject him, and instead of the blessed gospel, which they hiss at with abhorrence, embrace the blasphemous and ridiculous Koran, which they confidently affirm came down from God, calling all Christians infidels. The Jews reject him with abhorrence, and, in a blind zeal for Moses, blaspheme him as an impostor: "He came to his own, and his own received him not," John i. 11. Nay, the greater part of what is called the Christian world reject him; those that are called after his name will not submit to his government. The nobles of the world think themselves dishonoured by submitting their necks to his yoke. The sensualists of the world will not deny their lusts, or forsake their pleasures, for all the treasures of righteousness, life, and peace, which his blood has purchased. Worldlings prefer the dross of the world before him; and few among those who profess Christianity, love the Lord Jesus in sincerity. The only reason why they are called Christians is, because, by the kindness of Providence, they were born and educated in a country where Christianity is professed.

Now, reader, let me tell thee, that if ever God send forth his law and thine own conscience to arrest thee for thy sins; if thou find thyself dragged away by them towards that prison from whence none return; and that, in this unspeakable distress, Jesus Christ manifests himself to thy soul, and opens thy heart to receive him, and becomes thy surety with God, and cancels all thy obligations-thou wilt love him at another rate than others do; his blood will run deeper in thine eyes than it doth in the shallow apprehensions of the world; he will be altogether lovely, and thou wilt account all things but dung and dross in comparison of

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