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WAY TO
SAí.NA'T1ON
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HYMN FOR
SERMONS
.XVI.
AND XVII.
,--..
THE
GOSPEL
THE POWER
OF GOD
TO
SALVATION.
LONG
TIHAT
shall
the
dying sinner do,
That
seeks
relief
for all his
woe;
Where
shall
the guilty conscience
find
Ease
for
the
torment
of the
mind
?
How shall
we get our
crimes forgiven,
Or
form our
natures
fit
ter
heaven
;
Can
souls
all
o'er
defil`d with sin,
AI.rke
their
own
powers and passions
clean?
In
vain
we
search,
}n
vain
we
try.
Till Jesus brings
his
gospel nigh
:
'Tis there
such power
and
glory dwell,
As saves
rebellious
souls from
hell.
METRE.
This
is
the pillar of
our
hope,
That bears our fainting spirits
up
:
We
read the grate,
we
trust the
word,
And
find
salvation in the Lord.
Let
men or angels dig
the
mines,
Where nature's golden treasure
shines;
Brought near the doctrine ofthe
cross,
All
nature's
gold
appears but
dross.
Should vile
blasphemers
with
disdain,
Pronounce the
truths of Jesus
vain;
I'll
meet the scandal and the
shame,
And sing
and triumph in his
name..
SERMON
FAITH
THE
WAY TO SALVATION.
Rom.
i.
16.
---The
gospel
of Christ,
it
is
the
power
of
God unto salvation
to
every
one
that
helieveth, to the
Jew
fast, and
also to
the
Greek.
SAL.Y.TIQN
is
a
fregl
ent
and familiar word in the
mouth
of
all who call themselves Christians.
It
is
a
sort
of
asseveration
or
oath among the looser and meaner
part
of
mankind;
As
ï,
hope
to be saved.
But
little
do
they
know
what salvation
means.
All
the
notion
they have
of
it
is
this,
that
they
.would
be saved from going down
to
hell, a
place
of
fire
and torment, and that
they
would
go
up to heaven
when they
die,
to
some
fine
unknown
shining
place above
the
skies,
where they shall
be
free
from all
pain
and
uneasiness,
This
is
the utmost
point
to
.s
:llich
their idea reaches, and
I
think
i
have
hit
their
sense exactly in this
description.
Alas
!
poor ignorant
creatures! They
have
no
thought
of
being saved from
sin,
of
having
their hearts madg
holy,
their
sinful
incli-
nations
rectified,
their
passion:: su.Ldued
or refined,
their
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