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SERM. XXXIV.
THE
ATONEMENT
OF
CHRIST.
57
HYMN
FOR
SERMON
XXXIII.
TIIE
UNIVERSAL
RULE
OF EQUITY.
LONG
BLESSED
Redeemer,
"how
divine,
How righteous
is
this rule
of thine,
«
Never
to
deal
with
others
worse,
Than
we
would have them deal with
us."
Pits
golden lesson short and plain,
Gives nor
the mind nor
memory pain
i
And every conscience joust
approve
This
universal
law
of
love.
'Tis written
in
each mortal breast,
Where
all
out tenderest
wishes
rest:
We
draw
it
from
our inmost veins,
Where
love to
self resides
and reigns.
METRE.
Is
reason ever
at
a
loss
?
Call
in self-love to
judge the
cause,
Let our
own
fondest passions'shew,
IIow
we
should
treat
our neighbours too.
I-low
hless'd would every nation
prove,.
Thus
rul'd
by equity
and
love
!
All would be friends without a
foe,
And form
a paradise
below,
Jesus,
forgive
us
that
we
keep
Thy sacred
law
of
love
asleep
:
And
take
our envy,
wrath
and pride,
Those savage passions, for our
guide.
SERMON
XXXIV.
THE
ATONEMENT
OF
CHRIST.
Rom. iii. 25.
Whom God bath set forth
to
be
a
propitiation
-
IT
is
one
of
the chief
glories
of
the
gospel,
that
it
dis-
covers a
full
atonement
for
sin by
the blood
of
Christ,
that it
sets
before
us
the
reconciliation
of
sinners
to
an
offended
God, by
the
death of
his own son.
One
would
be
ready
to
wonder,
that
any
of
the guilty
race
of
Adam
should
be
so
unwilling to receive
so
divine a
discovery,
or
should refuse
a blessing
so
important.
But
such
unhappy principles
have
prevailed over the
minds
of
some men,
and
particularly
the sociñians
in
the
last
age,
that
they have been
content
to
venture
their
eternal
hopes on the
mercy
of
God,
.without a
depend
-
ance
on
the
satisfaction made for
sin, by
Jesus
the
Savi-
our.
They imagine
Christ
the
son
of
God
came
into
our
world
chiefly
to
be
a
teacher of
grace and duty, to
be
an
example
of
piety
and virtue, to plead
with
God
for sin-