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A
RATIONAL DEFENCE
OF
THE GOSPEL.
fSERM.
XVII.
be
who
makes
us
willing
to
accept
of Jesus
as
a
Prince
and
a
Saviour, to renew
our
sinful natures; to refine
our
hearts, and
thereby to reform
our
lives
:
It
is
he
that
takes
the blood
of
Christ, and applies it to a
distressed.
COflSCiCnce
under
the
guilt
of
sin,
and
thus
gives
the
disquieted
soul
rest
.and
peace: He
takes
of
the things
of
Christ,
and
shews
them unto
us
in all
their
glory
and
sufficiency
for
our
salvation,
and thereby
justly
obtains
the name
of
the paraclete,
that
is,
an advocate for Christ,
and
a.
comforter
to
us; John
xiv.
26. and
xv.
26.
and
xvi.
14, 15.
He
composes.the
ruffles
of
the
disturbed
mind, and speaks,;
all.
the
waves
of
the
soul into a calm:
He
makes
all
within
us
peaceful and
easy,
under
the
apprehensions, of
divine forgiveness
through
the
merit
of
Christ.
It
is
only the Spirit,
of God
That
can make the disco-
veries
of
heaven
in
the gospel effectual to
:awaken
our
hope, and
to
raise
ourjoy:
He
shews us how
it
is
pur
-,
chased
by
the blood
of
Christ,
and
that
it
is made
sure
to
all
those
that
believe
:
He
stamps
his
own
holy image
upon
us,
and
seals us
up for the inheritance
of
heaven.
Eph.
i.
13.
When.ye.heard the
word,
of truth,
the gospel
of
your
salvation,:
and
believed
it, ye
were then sealed
with the
Holy
Spirit
of
promise, which
is
the
earnest
of
our
inheritance. The Spirit
.is
sent
into our
hearts
as'
à
spirit of
adoption, whereby
we call
God Father,
Gal.
iv.
6.., And
he
changes
us from
children
of
wrath
into
the sons
and
daughters
of
the living
God;
and
he
himself
dwelling in us
is
a
pledge
and earnest
of
that
inheritance,
which,
is
reserved for
us
among the saints
in
light.
It
is:the
some
blessed
Spirit
that
makes
the gospel
of
Christ
powerful'
;to
mortify
sin in us
;
for though
the
words
of
the gospel forbid
all
iniquity, and
require
us
to
renounce the
lusts
of
the
flesh,
and
the vanities
of
the
world,
if
we
belong to
Christ; yet it
is by
the Spirit
of
God
alone
that
we
are enabled
to mortify the deeds
of
the
body,
that
we
may
obtain eternal
life,:
It
is
he
that
makes the commands
of
Christ
come
with
divine power
and authority upon the
soul,
and
gives
the motives
of
the
gospel power
to
persuade us:
It'
is
he
that
renews
our
affections, makes us
hate
sin,
and
love
God
supremely,
and
causes
us
to
delight
in
the spiritual pleasures
of
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