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PArTH
THE
WAY TO
SALVATION,
1SERM.
xvIrr.
Though
the
Jews'
enjoyment,
of
the
land
of
Canaan
depended
on
their
good
works
and obedience to
the
law
of
Moses,
yet their hope and enjoyment
of
heaven de-
pended
on
their
faith
or
trust
in the
mercy
of God,
which
was
to
be
farther
revealed in the
days
of
the Mes-
siah.
And
it
is
the same gospel
by
which
we
are
to
ob-
tain salvation,
since
Christ
is
come in
the flesh;
but
with
this difference,
that
we
are
now
more expressly
re-
quired
to
make
Jesus Christ
the object
of
our
faith,
and
we
have
a
thousand clearer
discoveries
of
his
righteous
-
ness
and
grace than
ever the
Jews
were
favoured
with.
.Happy
mankind
!
though fallen and
ruined
in
Adam,
yet
recovered and raised
to
righteousness, grace,
and
glory,
by
Jesus
Christ. How
dreadful
is
that
law
which
prohounces
a
curse and death upon
every
transgressor!
Tribulation
and wrath,
indignation and anguish upon
.every
soul.
that
Both evil,
to the
Jew
first,
and
also to
the
gentile,
Rom.
ii.
9.
But
how
sweet
and
reviving
is
the
grace
of that
gospel, which becomes the power
of
God
to
the
salvation
of
every one
that
believeth, to the
Jew
first,
and,also
to the
Greek
!
The great and
blessed
God
saw
the frailty
of
his
crea-
ture
man,
how
ready
he was to
ruin himself
under
a
law
of works;
therefore
he
has
appointed
his
recovery
by
a
-law
of
faith.
And what the
law
could
not
do,
in
that
it
was
weak
through
the infirmity
of
our
flesh,
that
he
has
sent
bis
own
Son.Jesus
Christ
in the likeness
of
sinful
flesh,
to
do for
us,
to
fulfil all
the demands-
of
the
law,
both
in the
penalty and
the
precept,
to finish
transgression,
to make an end
of
sin, by his
own sufferings,
and
to
bring
in
an everlasting righteousness,
that
whosoever
believes
on him
should
be
saved. Blessed
God!
How
kind and condescending are thy
ways
to the
children
of
men
!
How
full
of
compassion
to rebels, who
had
de-
stroyed themselves
!
How gentle are the methods
of
thy
recovering
mercy
!
If
we will
but
confess
our
sins,
mourn over
our
own follies,
return
to the
Lord our God
by
humble repentance, and
put
our
trust
in
an almighty
Saviour; there
is
grace and
life,
and glory provided for
us,
and
laid up
in
the hands
of Jesus
Christ our Lord.
REMARK
III.
Though
the gospel
offers us
salvation
by faith
and
not
by
works,
yet
it
effectually secures
the
practice
of holiness;
since holiness
is.
a
part of
that sal,