29$ A ñA1'I`O!Ó'A'L 19É'PËKC°g dF ?HË GOSPEL, [SEAM. icVí2: has been the great Operator, and has'wrought this change fti us. Thus I have made it appear at large, how the' gOspel of Christ is the power of God to salvation. I apply My- self immediately , to raise a few inferences from the sub- feet I have been treating of. INFERENCES. I. Inference. How unreasonable are: all the re- proaches that are cast upon this gospel ! A gospel that saves mankind from misery, and from sin, and eternal death ! A gospel that teaches men how to appear be- fore a holy and terrible God withcomfort, though their in are .many, and their righteousnesses are 'imperfect ! A gospel that gives the hope of pardon to criminals and rebels, and the hope of heaven to undeserving creatúres!" And all this upon such solid grounds and- foundations asjustifies its highest promises and proposals to the rea- son of men ! It is a gospel that changes our sinful na- tures, into holiness, and reforms our hearts as well as lives ! A gospel that, aided' by divine- power, creates souls anew, and raises dead sinners to life! It is a gos- pel that turns wolves into lambs, and makes ravenous vultures as meek-as doves ! A gospel- that so disturbs the kingdomof Satan, as to take - thousands-of slaves-and èaptives out of his dominions, to transfer them into the glorious kingdom of Christ; and make them chearful and willing subjects ! A- gospel that fulfils gloriously the first promise, and makes-it appear, that the seed of the woman hath broken the serpent's head; and destroyed the works of the devil. You have never seen ", you have never known; you have never learned this gospel, aright, if-you have not felt' it to be the power of God uiítö sal- vation. Those- that can speak evil of this gospel, it'may be'universally said concerning them, they speak evil of the things they know not; for if they had known this gospel as they ought to know it, they would have seen it'-all over glorious and divine they would have felt it to be attended with-divine power to their salvation, and then they would' never speak evil of it. The heathen world' may be ashamed'of their doctrines and their religion; the heathen worshippers- mafbe ashamedof their -sacrifices,- their superstitions; and their
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