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INWARD WITNESS TD
CHRISTIAN7TY.
DRAM.
M.
truth
of
that
gospel, by
and
to
which they
are
called.
Though
they
cannot
argue for the
doctrine
of
Christ,
yet
they
find
Christ
dwelling
within
them.
the
hope
of
glory,
Col.
i.
27.
They
find
the
characters of Christ
copied.
out
in
their
hearts, and the life
of
Christ, in
some
measure,
transcribed
in
their
lives.
They
find
something
of
sacred influence from the gospel
of
Christ,
which
no other doctrines can pretend
to;
therefore,
though they cannot
give
a
rational account,
which
shall
answer
all
the
cavils
of
men;
why
they
believe
christi-
anity,
through the
weakness
of
their
knOwledge,
yet
their
faith
in
Christ
is
strong
;
for
they
are sure the doc-
trine
is
divine,.
because
of
the
sweet
and
sanctifying
in-
fluence
it
has
upon
then-i.
How condescending
is
God
to
poor
sinners,
to
give
such
a
religion to
be
saved
by,
that
every one
who
re-
ceives
it
shall have
an infallible
witness in
himself
of the
truth of
it,
without
the
learning
of
the
schools,
and the
knowledge
of
tongues
!
Their chief argument
for
it
is,
they
have divine holiness
and
divine
peace.
VIII.
This
inward
witness
of
the
truth of
christianity
is,
or should
be,
always
growing and improving.
The
testimony increases
as
the divine love increases
;
the
greater
the degree
of
holiness
we
arrive
at,
the
more
are
we
confirmed in the
truth
of
christianity, the testi-
mony
grows
stronger,
2
Cor.
iii.
18.
You
find
that
text
approves
of
what
I
have now argued.
When
the
apostle
had been
distinguishing between the religion
of
the
law,
and
that
of
the
gospel,
that
the
one
was
cover
ed with a
veil,
but under
the other this
veil was
taken
away
:
We, says he,
under
the gospel, with
open
face
beholding,
as
in
a glass, the
glory
of
the
Lord,
are
changed into the
same
image
from
glory
to
glory.
We
who behold
the
face
of
Christ Jesus
in his
gospel,
we
who
here
see
a God reconciled
in
and
by
the
death
of
his Son,
we
who see
the
holiness
of Christ
here describ-
ed,
copied,
and
exemplified,
we
are
changed into the
same image.
The
image
of
Christ
is
transcribed upon
our
natures,
we
go
on from one
degree
of
it
to
another;
we
are
changed
from
glory
to
glory,
from one
degree
of
glorious
holiness
'to another
:
thereby the
gospel
ap-
pears to have a
fairer,
a
brighter;
and
a
stronger
evi-
dence.