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XXXVI.
HYMN
FOR
SERMON
XXXV.
FAITH AND REPENTANCE ENCOURAGED BY
THE
SACRIFICE OF
CHRIST.
COMMON
METRE.
`%TFIERE
shall the
guilty conscience
go
To find
a
sure relief?
Can
bleeding bulls
or goats bestow
A
bahn
to
ease my
grief
?
Will
popish rites and
penances,
Release
my soul from
sin?
What
insufficient
things are these
To
calm
the
wrath divine
l
God,
the great
God,
who
rules
the
skies,
The
gracious
and the
just,
Makes his
own Son
our
sacrifice
:
And there
lies all our
trust.
O
never let ray thoughts renounce
The
gospel:
Cif
my God.
Where
vilest crimes
are cleans'd at
once
In
Christ's atoning
blood.
Here rest
my
faith, and
ne'er remove,
Here let repentance
rise,
While
I
behold
his
bleeding lose,
His dying agonies.
With
shame and sorrow
here
T
own
How
great
my
guilt
has been
:
This
is
my way
t'
approach the throne,
And God
forgives my sin.
SERMON XXXVL
THE
USE
OF
THE
FOREGOING
SERMONS,
WITH INTER-
MINGLED
REFLECTIONS,
Rom. iii. 25.
Whom God hath
set forth to
be
a
propitiation
---
THIS
glorious
doctrine
of
the
propitiation
of
Christ,
has been explained and proved
at
large
in
the former
discourses.
It
remains
that
we shew
the
proper
uses
of
it.
If
we
would set
our
thoughts
at
work
to
draw infer-
ences,
we
might derive thence many truths, as
well
as
duties.
But
as my
chief
design
is
to
promote practical
godliness,
I
shall
content
myself with
mentioning
two
doctrinal
inferences,
and
all
the
rest
shall
more
imme-
diately
direct our
practice.
First doctrinal
inference.
How
vain
are
all
the
la-
bours
and pretences
of
mankind,
sinful,
guilty mankind,
to
seek
or hope
for any
better
religion than
that
which
is
contained in
the gospel
of Christ
!
It
is
here
alone,
that
we
can
find
the solid and
rational
principles
of
reconcile-