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FAITH
THE
WAY TO
SALVATION.
ESERM.
XVIII.
our
honours
paid
through
the
ages
of
eternity.
We
were
a
race of
guilty and perishing rebels, who had sinned
against
thy
majesty,
and ruined
our
own souls
:
We
lay
upon
the borders
of
death and
hell
without
help,
and
without
hope
:
We
could do
nothing
to
procùre
thy
love,
nor merit
any
thing
.by
the best
of our
works: But
thou
hast
called us
to
believe thy
gospel, to
trust
in thy
grace, to
lay
down
the arms
of
our
rebellion,
and
to
re-
ceive the
blessings
of
salvation
by
faith:
We
have no-
thing
to
boast
of,
for
we
are mere
receivers
:
Thou hast
put
forth thine
almighty. arm,
and hast made
thy gospel
the instrument
of
thy power to
save
us;
and
while we
feel and taste the complete salvation, thy power and thy
mercy shall have all the praise.
Not
unto
us,
O
.Lord
Jesus
our
Saviour,
not
unto
us
is
any
honour
due;
but
to
thy
condescending
love
;
to
thy
compassion and
death
shall
our honours
be
paid,
and
our
acknowledgments made for ever. We saw ourselves
helpless, and
were
directed
to thee for help
:
We trusted
in thee,
and thou hast
saved us
:
it
is
thy sufferings
that
have
procured our pardon
;
it
is
by
faith in thy blood
we
find
an
.atonement; it
is
through
thy righteousness
that
we
are justified and accepted
of
God, and
made
par-
takers of
these heavenly glories
that
shine
all
around
us.
All
our sacred
comforts,
our
excellencies,
and our joys
are
thine.
Pride
is
hidden
from
our
eyes
for
ever,
and
boasting
is
banished
from all
our
tongues
It
is
thou
hast
fulfilled the law
:
it
is
thou
hast
suffered the
curse; it
is
thou hast purchased, and
promised, and bestowed the
blessing.
We
believed thy word, we
received thy grace,
and
behold,
we,
dying sinners, are raised to
life,
and ad-
vanced
to glory.
There
is
not
a soul
of
us
but
delights to
join
in
these sublime anthems
of
worship;
Worthy
is
the
Lamb
that
was
slain
to
receive
power,
and
riches,
and
wisdom,
and strength,
and
honour,
and glory, and
blessing:
Blessing,
and
honour,
and glory, and
power
be
to
hvn
that
sits
upon
the throne,
and
to
the Lamb,
for
eve
Amen.