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HOPE.
[SERM.
XIX.
saved,
Is.
xiv.
22.
It
is
no
matter, O sinner
!
what
thy'
father
was,
or what
thy
kindred are
!
if
thou
art
"but
a,
believer in Christ, thy
soul
is
happy, thy
sins
are par-
doned, the
gospel
is
the power
of
God
to thy
salvation.
2.
It
is
not
confined to
one' sex only,
or
to
one
age.
The children are called
as well as
the fathers,
and
men
and women are
invited
'to
partake
of
this blessing toge
ther
in
Christ.
There
is
neither
male
nor
female,
neither
young
*nor
old,
neither Greek nor Jew, that
have any
distinction
put
upon
them,
to
exclude
them from this
grace
;
they
are
all
one
in
Christ Jesus, Gal.
iii.
28.
Children
have you
seen
the
evil
of
your
sins,
and the
danger of
hell?
Do
you long for
pardoning and
saving
grace,
and are
you willing
that
Christ
should make
your
peace
with
God,
that
he
should enable
you to serve him
upon earth, and prepare
you for
heaven
?
Come then;
trust'in
this
gospel, give
up yourselves
to
Jesus
Christ
the
Saviour,
in
the
manner I
have
spoken, and
the
sal-
vation
is
yours.
Nor let
old sinners
thrust
away this
mercy
from them,
under
a
pretence
that
they have
long
abused
it.
You are
now
under thejoyful sound
of
the
gospel;
you sit
now
under
the language
of
inviting
love
:
Are
you willing to
be
made
new
creatures befòre
you
die,
and
to
accept
of
a deliverance
from
hell,
though you
are upon the
very
borders
of it
?
Behold power
enough
in this gospel
to
deliver
you
:
The
blood
of Christ
can
wash out stains
of
the longest
continuance
;
the
Spirit
of
Christ
can change the
skin
of
an
old
Ethiopian, and
create an
old
inveterate transgressor
into
holiness.
This
gospel could
save the
thief upon
the
cross,
and insure
paradise
to
him.
It
can rescue a dying rebel from
eter-
nal
death;
for
it
gives life
and
salvation to every one
that
believes.
.
It
is
not
limited to one
rank
or
condition
of
men in
the
civil
life,
but
reaches to persons
of
every circum-
stance.
The
rich and
the
poor, the master and the
servant, the prince and the peasant, must partake
of
salvation
by
the
same
faith
in
the
Son
of
God. The
barbarian and the
Scythian, who
seem
to be
born for
slaves,
and
the,
Romans
who
are lords
of
the
earth, the
bond
and
the
free, have
all
an equal call
to
receive
this
salvation;
Col. iii.
11.
Ye
are
all
rich enough to ob-
tain it:
There
is
no
purchase
of
these
blessings by any