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SERJvL-XXI.]
T1UJTII,
-
SINCERITY,
&C.
353.
truth
;
and it
is
a
most
inconsistent thing
for the
profes-
sors
of
this gospel to be
guilty
of
falsehood.
God
the
Father
is
the
God of truth
;
and never did
he
give
sa
glorious
a
demonstration
of
the sincerity
of
his
love,
of
the faithfulness
of
his
promises,
and of
the con-
stancy
of
his
compassionate
design to man,
as in
sending
his own
Son
into the world,
according
to his
ancient pro-
phecies
of a
thousand
years,
and
bestowing
upon
us
Je-
sus
the Saviour.
Jesus
Christ,
by
whose
name
we
are
called, he
is
the
true and faithful
witness,
Rev.
iii.
14.
Truth
and grace,
and peace came
by him,
John
i.
17.
He
is
called the
truth,
John
xiv.
6.
He
came down to
bring
life
and im-
mortality
to
light
by his
gospel
;
he came to tell
us,
and
he
well knew,
that
in his
Father's
house were many man-
sions
;
and
if
it
were
not
so,
says he,
I
would have
told
you
;
But it
is
not
my
business to
be
a
deceiver
to men
:
Therefore
all the
life,
light,
and
immortality
that
I
have
discovered
to you
in
my
preaching,
it
is
all sincere,
it
is
all real.
When
you
enter
into the
other
world,
trusting
my
promises, you
will find
all
my
words
fulfilled.
I
would
not
have raised
your expectations,
if
it
had been
otherwise.
Again, the Holy Spirit
is
a Spirit
of truth
;
it
is
he
that
guides
us
into
all
truth,
John
xvi.
13.
And
the
name
of
this
Father,
and
this
Son,
and
this
Holy Spirit,
is
called
upon
us
in
our
first
admission to christianity
So
that
we
wear the
,name
of the God
of truth
upon
us,
and shall
we
indulge
temptations
to
falsehood
?
Shall we
practise de-
ceit, who
profess
a gospel
of
such
truth,
and upon
whom
the name
of
the
Father,
and the
Son,
and
the
Holy
Ghost, the name
of
the
God of truth
is
pronounced in
baptism
?
God
is
sincere
in
his
revelations
of
grace, and discove-
ries
of
his
pardoning
mercy
;
for he
sent
his own Son
to
die
for
us,
and this
is
a
proof
of
his
sincerity
in his
de-
signs
of
love.
Let
us
then
be
sincere
in
love to
our God,
to our fellow-
creatures, and
fellow
-
christians.
Jesus Christ
is
sincere
in the
profession
of
his
leve,
and
he
hath
given
us
an infallible pledge
of
it,
for
he
hath
given
his life for
us.
Greater
love
/math
no
man
than
this,
that
a man lay
down
his life,
for
his
friends, John
xv.
13.
But
he
bath
laid down his
life
for
enemies,
and
v
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i.
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