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other
price
but
that
of
the
blood
of
Jesus.
Silver
and
gold,
and
the
treasure
of
kings,
are
all
contemptible
of-
fers in
so
sacred
a concernment
as this
is.
The
benefit
is
too valuable
to
be
bought at
any
meaner
rate
:
Christ,
who
paid for
it, will
bestow
it
freely on
all.
If
the
rich
will
receive it,
they must
come
without
money,
and
without price, and
accept of
the free
gift
of God,
as
humble
petitioners
at
his
footstool
;
and the
poor
that
have no money, come
ye
and buy;
Is.
lv.
1,
2.
Let
the vilest
meanest creature
come to this
treasury
of
grace,
and
with
thankfulness receive the salvation, for
it
is
bought
already. You
are
called
only to
trust
in
this
gospel, to
surrender
yourselves to this Saviour,
and the
salvation
shall
be
yours.
Ye
that
are
mean
and
low
and
base in this
world,
there are
many
of
your brethren
al-
ready joined
in
the
fellowship
of
this gospel:
Come,
enter
yourselves
into the
blessed
fraternity.
To
the
poor
the
gospel
is
preached,
and the poor
receive
it.
But
there are
some noble,
there are
some
great, there
are
some rich,
that
have
felt the power
of
it
too
:
There
is
Philemon
the master,
and
his
servant
Onesimus,
joined
in the same
faith,
and partakers
of
the
same salvation,
Philem.
16.
Again, 4.
It
is
not
confined
to persons
whose
intel-
lectual excellencies are
superior
to
their neighbours, or
who exceed
others
in
understanding and
the
acquire-
ments
of
the
mind.
St.
Paul
was
debtor both
to the
wise
and the unwise; to the learned Greek, and
to
the
igno-
rant
and unpolished
barbarian,
Rom:
i.
14.
H
preach-
ed
the gospel to all
of
them, for
Christ
had a chosen
number amongst
them
all.
If
the
witty,
and
the
wise,
and the
learned,
will
lay down
their
pride,
and submit to
the
doctrine of Christ
crucified,
and
not
call
it
foolish-
ness
:
If
they
will
humble
their understandings
to
re-
ceive
the
sacred
mysteries
of our
religion,
God
manifest
in the
flesh,
and
put
to death
for the
sins
of
men,
and
will
place
the concerns
of
their eternal
welfare
into the
hands
of
him who
hung bleeding upon the
cross
:
If
they
are
willing
to be converted
and
become
as
little children,
there
is
a door for them
to
enter
into the kingdom
of
heaven. And
as
for
you, whose
understandings are
weak
and unpolished
with
human learning,
this
is
a doc-
trine and a
gospel exactly fitted for
your character
:
It
is
Y