SERM. XXXIV. THE ATONEMENT OF CHRIST. 57 HYMN FOR SERMONXXXIII. TIIE UNIVERSAL RULE OF EQUITY. LONG BLESSED Redeemer, "how divine, How righteous is this rule of thine, « Never to deal with others worse, Than we would have them deal with us." Pits golden lesson short and plain, Gives nor the mind nor memory pain i And every conscience joust approve This universal lawof love. 'Tis written in each mortal breast, Where all out tenderest wishes rest: Wedraw it from our inmost veins, Where love to self resides and reigns. METRE. Is reason ever at a loss ? Call in self-love to judge the cause, Let our own fondest passions'shew, IIow we should treat our neighbours too. I-low hless'd would every nation prove,. Thus rul'd by equity and love ! All would be friends without a foe, And form a paradise below, Jesus, forgive us that we keep Thy sacred law of love asleep : And take our envy, wrath and pride, Those savage passions, for our guide. SERMONXXXIV. THE ATONEMENT OF CHRIST. Rom. iii. 25. Whom God bath set forth to bea propitiation - IT is one of the chief glories of the gospel, that it dis- covers a full atonement for sin by the blood of Christ, that it sets before us the reconciliation of sinners to an offended God, by the death of his own son. One would be ready to wonder, that any of the guilty race of Adam should be so unwilling to receive so divine a discovery, or should refuse a blessing so important. But such unhappy principles have prevailed over the minds of some men, and particularly the sociñians in the last age, that they have been content to venture their eternal hopes on the mercy of God, .without a depend- ance on thesatisfaction made for sin, by Jesus theSavi- our. They imagine Christ the son of God came into our world chiefly to be a teacher of grace and duty, to be an example of piety and virtue, to plead with God for sin-
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