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IN ITS LOWEST
DECREES.
DISC.
VII.
word
óf God
never sounds
;
Ye that
have lived
hitherto
like
wild
heathens
in
the ends
of
the earth,
if
any such
are
present
in this assembly,
remember
you
are
this day
called
as
it were
by
the
prophet
from heaven, and
by
the
word
of
the
living
God,
from the lips
of
his
ministers on
earth,
to look
to
God
in
Christ,
as
reconciling the
world
to
himself;
to look to
Jesus
the Saviour, in whom
all
the
fulness
of
the godhead dwells.
The third enquiry
proceeds thus
:
What
is
this
salva-
tion
to which
we
are
invited
?
It
is
the
same salvation
that Israel
shall
enjoy,
the
Israel of
God, the people
of
his
love': They shall
be
saved
in
the Lord
with
an everlasting salvation. ver.
17.
In
general,
it
is
a
salvation
from
sin,
and
all
the dismal
consequences
of
it.
This
is
the
reason of the name
Jesus,
or.
the Saviour;
Mat.
i.
21.
"
Ile
shall save his
people
from
their
sins." And
it
is
the
same
Jesus,
"
who
delivers
us
from the
Wrath
to
come
;"
1
Thess.
i.
1O
Particularly,
(1.) It
is
a
sàlvation from the guilt
of
past
sins,
which exposes
us
to
divine vengeance,
and
a
restoration of
the
person
to the
present
love
and favour
of
God,
to
peace
of
conscience, and
to
the hope
of
eter-
nal
life.
(2.)
It
is
a
salvation
and
recovery
from
the power
of
sin
to
the power
of
holiness.
It
is
a deliverance
from
vile
affections and
sinful
practices
to
the
practice
and
the love
of
all
piety and goodness
:
It
is
a recovery'
of
our nature
from the
lusts
of
the
flesh,
and the
life
of
a brute,
to the
reasonable
and becoming
life
of
a
man
Or
an
angel.
It
is
a
rescue
of
the
soul from the
tyranny
of
its
own
lusts,
and
the
foul image
of
Satan, to a
sweet and
sacred liberty, to
a religious
self
-
government, and
to
the
image
of
God.
(3.)
It
is
a deliverance
from all
the
future punish-
ments due
to
sin,
from the
everlasting
misery
of
hell,
together
with
the conveyance
of
a right
and title
to
the
everlasting happiness
of
heaven.
It
is
a blessing
that
runs through
this world
and the world
to come.
It
is
a
total and
complete deliverance
from
all
that
you
feel,
and
all
that
you fear.
It
is
all
-
sufficient
and eternal sal-
vation.
Whatsoever
your ruin, your
distress,
or
your
danger
be,
there
is
something
in
this
salvation that
is
suited
to
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