124. Peter's denial of his Mager, SE R M. This is the fame abfurdity, which St. Paul V. mentions, Rom. vi. I. as what fome men imagin'd to be chargeable on the gofpel grace, and which he rejects with the utmoft abhorrence. Having faid, in the clofe of the preceeding chapter, that where fin abounded, grace did much more abound; he adds, as a profane furmife which might arife in fome impious minds, (hall we continue in fin, that grace may abound? and fays, God fòrbid. Let it not be fo. It's impofible filch a thought fhould enter into a fncere heart, or that the grace of God fhould be fo abufed by any one who ferioufly confiders the nature and defign of it, which is, quite on the con- trary, to reform men, and to deliver them from the power of fin, as all the doctrines and inftitutions of chriitianity plainly Phew. The conclufion is, that the inftance I have been explaining, and all the circumftances of it fully proving human frailty, and the power and freedom of divine grace ; that, I fay, this inftance is of a piece with the general intention of the grace that brings falvation and hath appeared unto us, inftrufting us, that denying all ungodlinefs and worldly lulls, we fhould live foberly, righteoufly and godly : that
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