EXHORTATION TO BELIEVE, 267 Do you judge it a way fitted to bring glory to God 1 Doth it answer all the wants and distresses of your souls 1 Do you think it excellent, safe and glorious to those who have entered it i Or, have you any thing to object against it 1 Return your answer to Him in whose name and by whose appointment these words are spoken to you. If you say, We are convinced that thisway of for- giveness is the only way for the relief and deliverance of our souls, then, 8. .ñbhor yourselves for all your blindness and obsti- nacy whereby you have hitherto despised the love of God, the blood of Christ, and the tenders of pardon in the Gospel. Be abased and humbled to the dust in a sense of your vileness. And, 9. Labor to exercise your hearts greatlywith thoughts of that abundant grace which is manifested in this way of sinners coming to God ; as also, of the excellency of the Gospel wherein it is unfolded. Consider the eternal love of the Father, which is the fountain and spring of this whole dispensation; the inexpressible love of the Son, in establishing and confirming it, in removing all hin- derances and obstructions by his own blood, bringing forth to beauty and glory this redemption or forgive- ness of sin. And let the glory of the Gospel, which alone makes this discovery of forgiveness in God, dwell in your hearts. Let your mind be exercised about these things. You will find effects from them above all that bath as yet been wrought in your souls. What for the most part have you hitherto been conversant about 1 When you have risen above the turmoil of lusts and corruptions in your hearts, the entanglements of your callings, business and affairs, what have you been able
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