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he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” "To as many as receive him, to them gives he power to become the sons of God, even to them who believe on his name." Let all then come to him who through a felt conviction of their sins think themselves ready to perish. Let them seek the Saviour. Let them return unto God through him. He is the redeemer of their forfeited inheritance; he is the restorer of their lost liberty; he pays the debts which they have contracted with God, and answers every demand of his law upon them; it is his grace which sets the oppressed free; it is his year which is the year of jubilee. Surely shall one say, In the Lord have I righteousness and strength," in the Lord deliverance from sin, restoration to my birthright, and an inheritance in heaven. Draw nigh then to him in penitence; apply in prayer; come in faith. Let the eye of your mind take an enlightened view of the gospel method of salvation. Let the desires of your soul spring forth to possess it. And in order that you may possess it, strive, oh! strive to win Christ and to be found in

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him." Labour that you may enter into his rest, that peaceful and happy land of religion. and piety on earth, which is an earnest and anticipation of the "inheritance incorruptible and undefiled," of buildings "not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."

Happy indeed are ye who have known the joyful sound. You are "justified freely;" you have "peace with God;" you may

rejoice in hope of his glory." You are made free, and "those whom the Son makes free, are free indeed." You are delivered "from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of sons of God." "Stand fast then in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free, and be not entangled again by the yoke of bondage." "Ye have been

called to liberty, only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh." Yes, beloved brethren, you are no longer the slaves of Satan and sin, but oh! remember and shew that you are the servants of Christ. You are no longer debtors lying in a prison-house, but oh! ever think how greatly you are indebted to Christ for your liberation, yea, that you owe to him

even your whole spirit, and soul, and body. Yes, you are free indeed, but you have been made free from sin that you may be servants of righteousness. You are not your own. You have been "bought with a price," Oh! you well know what that price was, "therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are his." Shew that you not only choose to remain with him, as a slave who had allowed his ear to be nailed to the door of a kind master's house, but that you desire to abide with him as a son, to serve him with the utmost affection and love, even as a son begotten and born again by his grace.

SERMON XV.

THE SANCTIONS OF THE MOSAIC LAW.

LEVIT. XXVI. 3, 4.

If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit?

IN every age and nation they who have feared God and wrought righteousness have been accepted of him: and equally, on the other hand, they who have despised his word, and refused him their service, have been rejected by him. These grounds of proceeding are according to the eternal laws of truth and righteousness, and necessarily arise out of the just and holy character of God. But the Israelites, besides this general principle to which they might have arrived by the natural

dictates of reason and conscience, had a peculiar declaration of God's favour to them so long as they should be obedient, and of his wrath if they should be disobedient. As they had a peculiar law given them by express revelation, by which they were distinguished from all other nations, and greatly honoured above them, so had they also special promises of God's protection and kindness to their nation, and special threatenings of his severest judgments, according to the manner in which they conducted themselves towards him. The sanctions of their law were unquestionably of a temporal nature. National prosperity should follow their faithful observance of it; national miseries should be the punishment of their departure from it. But although this omission of the mention of at future state and its sanctions appears in the Jewish law, there are not a few intimations of it in various parts of the books of Moses themselves, which increase and grow clearer in the scriptures of succeeding inspired writers; so that there is no question but that the Jews had all along some knowledge of that

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