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him
yin.]
FATTfl
IN
ITS LOWEST DEGREES.
229
xxxii.
39,
43.
See now,
that
I,
even
I
am
he
;
'and
there
is
no
God
with
me
;
I
kill,
and
I
make
alive
";
I
wound
and
I
heal
;
neither
is
there
any
that
can' deliver
out
of
my hand.
Rejoice
therefore
O
ye
nations,
yë
gentiles
together with
his
people
Israel
;
for
he
will
ren-
der
vengeance
to his
adversaries,
and
be
mercifidto
his
land;
Is. xliii.
11. 13.
1,
even
I,
am
the
Lord
;
and
be-
side
me
there
is
no
Saviour.
I
will
work
; and
who
shall
let it.?
Thus
it
appears, that
there
is
abundant
'ground from
the
words
of
my
text, for a
poor
perishing sinner
to
raise
his
hope
to assurance
that
he
shall
be
saved,
if
he
does
but
sincerely, answer this gracious
invitation
from
he
.ven,
and trust
in
God,
as
he
is
revealed
in our
Lord
Jesus
Christ, for salvation,
according to
that
description
of
true
faith
which
is
given us
in
the
word
of
God.
All
the improvements
I
shall make
of
this
discourse
at
present,
shall
be
contained
in these
four
reflections.
1st
Reflection.
We
may
learn
from
this
scripture,
how
extensive
and
glorious
is
the salvation
of Christ
!
How
answerable
is
it
in every
respect
to
the weaknesses
and
the
wants,
to the miseries, dangers, and
fears,
of a con-
vinced,
and awakened sinner
!
It
reaches to
those who
are
perishing in the ends
of
the earth.
Let
us
survey
them a little
more
particularly.
1..
Is
our
.guilt
and
distress
exceeding great
and
dreadful
?
Behold here
a salvation
of
rich fulness
and
divine all
-
sufficiency:
for
it
is
a God that
provides it.
The riches'of
grace, the
depths
of
wisdom,
and
the efforts
of
almighty power
are
employed in this
blessed.
work
;
and the
mercy
is
expressed
in
the
manner of
a speaking
God
:.He
who said,
Let
there
be
light, and there
was
light,
says also,
look
and
be
saved
:
And the sinner looks,
and
receives salvation.
It
is
a God
who
commands
de;
liverançes for
Jacob,
and
salvation for
his
people
;
Ps.
xliv.
4.
2.
Are
our
enemies
great
and
mighty
?
Are the
flesh,
and
the world,
and the
powers
of
hell
engaged
against
,the
safety
of our
souls
?
yet our salvation
is
perfectly
and
eternally
secure;
for he
that
saves us
is
God
:
No
creature
can diiièst us
of
it,
and there
is no
other
God
besides
hin.
"Neither
height,
nor_
depth,
nor principa-
lities,
nor
powers
nor
life, nor death,
nor
any
creature,
(2
3