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INWARD WITNESS
TO.
CHRISTIANITY.
[SERM..
Ir.
To
see
a
man raised above this world,
and yet
exec-
cised in all the
duties
of
life
to
see him live
with
a
holy
superiority
to all things below heaven,
and yet
fulfilling
all
his
'relative duties among
men
with
diligence;.
to
see
a
man ready; every moment
to be gone from this
,world,
and yet content
to
stay
here
as
long
as his
Heavenly
Father
pleases,
under
the troubles, and burdens,
and
agonies
of
this life too
;
this
spews
the
religion
to be
divine,
and
from
heaven
Ile
that
believes,
has
this
Witness
in
himself;
and
where
faith
rises high, this
wit-
ness
appears evident and
glorious.
III.
Another
part
of
the holiness
of eternal
life,
coñ,
sists in
a
delight
in
the
worship and enjoyment
of God.
This
is
perfect
in
heaven,
this
is
eternal
life
:
Rtv.
vii,
15.
They are
before the
throne
of
God night and
day,
that
i$,
perpetually, and
serve
him
there in
his
temple,
Now
the
christian
religion
attains
this end in
a
good
measure
;
it brings the
soul
to
delight
in
divine worship
and
converse with
God,
which no mere
human religion
could ever
do
:
For
since no
human religion
could
ever
teach an awakened sinner,
how he
might
appear
in
the
presence
of
a holy
God,
with
assurance
and
comfort,
no
.
other
religion could make a soul delight
in
the worship
of
God.
1
e
can never delight
in
drawing
near
to
God,
that
hath
infrnite,vengeance
in
him,
while
we
know
;not
but
he
will
pour
that
vengeance
out
upon us;
we
fly
far
from
him,
unless
we
have some good
ground of
hope,
that
he will
forgive
us
our
iniquities, and
receive
us
into
his favour. Now since
there
is no
other doctrine,
that
spews
us how
our
sins
may
he.
forgiven;
or
how
the fa-
your of God
may be
attained, there
is
no
other religion
Can
allure
or
draw
us
into
the presence
of God
with
pleasure
;
Ileb.
x. 19,
2O,
Let
us
draw
near and
Ivor
-,
ship
the
Father,
in full
assurance and
confidence,
that
he
will
accept
our
persons and our
worship, since
w.e.
:have
such
an high-
priest
to
introduce
,uswith
accept-
ance
;;
since, by his
flesh
and
incarnation,
he has made
a
Yyay
for
us
to come
into
the presence.
of God
with
satis
-;
faction
and pleasure,
therefore let
us,
,draw
near and
worship
hirri.
The
influence
of
this
argument has
been,
found bychristiäns, byeverychri.stian;
.for
.there is,notone,
that
bath
believed
in
Christ,
but
has had this
witneSS
itk