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All
the members
of
that
assembly
must
be
overcomers
But
where there
is
a hearty desire and longing after grace
and
salvation,
let not
the worst
of
sinners
despair,
nor the
weakest
believer'
let
go
his
hope,
for it
is
such
as
you
and
I
are,
in
*horn
Christ
will
be magnified
in
that
day.
Believe
this,
O thou humbled
and
convinced sinner,
who
complainest
thy
heart
is
hard, though thou wouldest
fain
repent
and mourn
;
who
feaTest
the bonds
of thy
corruptions are
so
strong,
that
they shall
'never
be
broken, believe
that
the sovereign grace
of
Christ
has
designed
to
exalt itself
in
the sanctification
of such un-
holy souls as
thou art, and
in
melting
such
hard
-
hearts
as
thine. And thou,
poor trembling
soul,
that
wouldest
fain
trust
in
a
Saviour,
but art
afraid;
because
of
the
greatness
of
thy guilt, and thy
abounding iniquities,
be-
lieve
this,
"
that
where
sin
has
abounded,
grade has
muck
more abounded
;"
Rom.
v.
20.
It
is
from
the bringing
Such
sinners,
as
thou
art
to heaven,
that
the choicest re-
venues
of
glory
shall
arise
to
our Lord
Jesus
Christ, and
thy acclamations
of joy
and
honour
to
the Saviour shall
perhaps
be
loudest
in
that
day,
when
he shall
come-.to
be
glorified
in
his:
saints,
and
admired
in all
them
that
be-
lieve.
Read
the
1
Tim.
i.
13, 14.
and
see
there
what
an
ac-
count
the
great
apostle
gives
of
his own
conversion;
"
was
a
blasphemer, and
a
persecutor, and injurious, yet
I
obtained
mercy
;
and
the grace
of our Lord
was
exceed-
ing abundant,
with faith
and
love, which
is
in
Jesus
Christ."
Now
I
am
sent
to
publish and preach to blas-
phemers and persecutors,
that
this
is
afaithful
saying,
and
worthy
of
all
acceptation,
that
Christ Jesus
came
into the world to
save
sinners;
of
whom
I
am chief.
Howbeit,
for
this
cause
I
obtained
mercy,
that
in
mefirst
Jesus
Christ
Might
shew
forth
all
long-suffering,
for
a
pattern
to
them which
should
hereafter
believe on
him
to
life
everlasting,
verses
15, 16.
Turn
to
another
text,
ye
feeble believers
;"
2
Cor.
xii.
9,
10.
there
you shall find
the
same
apostle,
a
convert
and a
christian,
but
too..weak
to conflict with
the messen.
ger
of
Satan
that
buffeted
him,;
'nor
able to release him-
self
from
that
sore
temptation
that
lay
heavy
upon
him;
but
having received a word
from
Christ,
that
his
"grace
was sufficient,
and that
his
strength
was
to
shine
perfect