R. '41DX .?R'AC'rICAt ?ISIS rSUÌUM. XXXVI. HYMN FOR SERMONXXXV. FAITH AND REPENTANCE ENCOURAGED BY THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST. COMMON METRE. `%TFIERE shall the guilty consciencego To find a sure relief? Can bleeding bulls or goats bestow A bahn to ease my grief ? Will popish rites and penances, Release my soul from sin? What insufficient things are these To calm thewrath divine l God, the great God, who rules the skies, The gracious and the just, Makes hisown Son our sacrifice : And there lies all our trust. O never let ray thoughts renounce The gospel: Cif my God. Where vilest crimes are cleans'd at once InChrist's atoning blood. Here rest my faith, and ne'er remove, Here let repentance rise, While I behold his bleeding lose, His dying agonies. With shame and sorrow here T own How great my guilt has been : This is my way t' approach the throne, And God forgives my sin. SERMON XXXVL THE USE OF THE FOREGOING SERMONS, WITH INTER- MINGLED REFLECTIONS, Rom. iii. 25. Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation --- THIS glorious doctrine of the propitiation of Christ, has been explained and proved at large in the former discourses. It remains that we shew the proper uses of it. Ifwe would set our thoughts at work to draw infer- ences, we might derive thence many truths, as well as duties. But as my chief design is to promote practical godliness, I shall content myself with mentioning two doctrinal inferences, and all the rest shall more imme- diately direct our practice. First doctrinal inference.How vain are all the la- bours and pretences of mankind, sinful, guilty mankind, to seek or hope for any better religion than that which is contained in the gospel of Christ ! It is here alone, that we can find the solid and rational principles of reconcile-
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