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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 with
comfort,
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
as
justifies
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 kingdom
of
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
ashamed
of
their
-sacrifices,-
their
superstitions;
and
their