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RATIONAL DEFENCE
OF
tHE
GOSPEL.
jSLRM.
XV".
venture
all
my
own
eternal concerns upon
it.
I
lay all
the
stress
of
my
hopes
of
a
blessed
immortality
on it.
My
soul rests here,
and I
am
not
ashamed
of
my
resting
-
place
:
I
am
not
ashamed
of
my Saviour,
and the method
of
his
salvation.
I
am
persuaded
my
hopes shall never
disappoint
me.
Surely,
if
the gospel had been
So
very
irrational a
thing,
as some men
pretend it
to be,
St.
Paul,
being
so
'rational and
wise
a
man
would have been ashamed
to
.believe
it.
But I
believe
it, says
he,
and
am
not
ashamed.
I
do
not think it
casts any
just
reflection
upon
my
rati-
onal
capacities, or
my
learned education
at
the feet
of
'Garnaliel,
for
me to give
a
-full
assent
to
this
gospel.
2.
I
am not-ashamed to
profess it
as a
christian.
I
ám
'ready
to tell
the
world
that
I
believe
it,
and
I
take
all
occasions to
let the
world know
it.
I
am coming to
pro
fess
this gospel
at
Rome,
and
am
not
ashamed
:
I
have
owned
it.
before my
own
countrymen the Jews already,
where
it
has
been most
reproached.
I
have been
telling
the
gentiles
what the
gospel
of
salvation
is,
and
-I
long
to
see you
at
Rome,
that
I
may tell you
what
my
belief
is
in the gospel,
and may
hear
how
far
you have believed,
and
may be
comforted
by
the mutual faith both
of
you
and
me.
Rom.
i.
12.
I
shall be
glad
tò tell you
what
doctrines
I
venture
my own soul
upon,
and
shall
be-will-
ing to
hear
from you
whether
you
venture your
souls
upon
the same doctrine,
or
no;
and shall rejoice-to
find
we
are
both interested
in one salvation.
3.
I
am
not
ashamed to
preach
it
to others
as
a
mi-
nister,
that
is,
to invite
others
to believe
it.
'
It
is
a
com-
municable
good, and
I
am
sent
to diffuse
it,
nor
am
'I
.ashamed
of
my
commission.
See
2
Tim.
L.
10,
13.
Our
Lord Jesus
Christ
has
abolished death,
and-
brought
life
and immortality
to
light
by the gospel,
and
has
appointed
me a
preacher, and
an apostle to the gentiles
:
I
preach
the
gospel,
and
am
not
ashamed though I have
suffered
for
i
-t.
I
venture
my soul
upon it
Unto
the last
greatday,
and
I
bid thee,
Timothy,
as
a preacher
unto
others, to
"hold
fast the
same form
of
sound
words which
thou
hast
learned of
me.
.1
long
to
teach the whole
world
this
'faith
and
this
doctrine, therefore
I
am
a
debtor
to
the
4
reeks and
barbarians
I
would make
others
partakers
of
the same hope.
Would
to
God, that not
only
thou,
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