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NONE
EXCLUDED
FROM.
HOPE.
[SEAM. XIX.
against
man,
or against
God
himself,
ought to shut
up
a
humble soul
under
despair
;
for
this
is
a faithful
say-
ing,
and
worthy
of
all
acceptation,
that Jesus Christ
came to
save
the chief
of
sinners,
1
Tim.
i.
15.
And
that
is
a
word
of
most
extensive grace
which
our
Saviour
speaks,
Mat.
xii. 31.
All
manner
of
sin
and
blasphemy
shall
be
forgiven
unto
men.
You
who
have enjoyed
a
happy education, and
have
pious parents
to
boast
of,
as
the Jews boasted
of
Abra-
ham:
you
who
have many shining works
of
sobriety
and
righteousness,
you
are called
to come
and
trust
in
this
gospel
:
But
you
must renounce
all
your pretended
me-
rit, and
accept of pardoning
grace,
or
you can
never
be
saved.
And
you
that
have
nothing
that
looks
like a good
work
to glory
in,
sinners
as
bad
as
the worst
of
gentiles,
come,
and
believe
this gospel,
and
surrender
yourselves
to
Jesus
the Prince and
the
Saviour;
his
blood
is
all-
sufficient for the
pardon of your
sins,
his
righteousness
is all-
sufficient for
yourjustification
;
and
his
Spirit
can
purify your
sinful
natures. Where
sin
has
abounded,
grace has much more abounded,
Rom.
v.
20.
It
is
to
the
everlasting
honour
of
the
gospel
of
Christ,
that
it has
appeared
to be
the power
of God
to the salvation
of
multitudes
of
such
as
you
:
Such
Were some
of
you, saith
the apostle
to the
Corinthians
;
but ye
are
washed,
but
ye
are
sanctified,
but ye
are
J
justed,
in
the
name
of
the
Lord
Jesus,
and
by
the
Spirit
of
our
God,
1
Cor.
vi,
11.
And sùrely
if
great
degrees
of
sin
cannot
exclude the
penitent
soul from
the benefit
of
the gospel
;
then,
7.
Neither
shall any person
be
excluded
because
of
the
weak degrees
of
his
faith
:
Hirn
that
is weak
in
the faith,
receive
ye;
for
Christ
has
received
him, Rom.
xiv. 1,,3.
Read that
kind,
condescending promise, and
believe it,
Mat.
xii.
20.
He
will not break the bruised
reed,
nor
quench
the
snaoaking
flax,
nor
suppress,
nor
despise
the
least, the lowest desires
of
grace
:
He
will
encourage the
youngest and the feeblest acts
of
sincere
repentance
and
true
faith,
though struggling under much
sin
and dark-
ness, till
it break out
into
evident
and active
flame.
The
little tender
seed
of
grace
under
his
heavenly influences
shall
bud, and
blossom,
and spring up into
full glory.
How large and glorious
is
the salvation
that
attends