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audience
when we
address ourselves to the
great and
dreadful God
;
for
we
are but
his
creatures,
who
have
sinned
against
him,
but
he
is
the
only
begotten
Son.
We
may
well
stand
at
a
distance, and tremble, for
we
are
rebels;
but
he is
perfect in
his
loyalty and obedience.
We
are defiled,
but
he
is
pure
and unspotted
;
we
might
expect
thunder
and destruction
from the Almighty, for
the
Lord abhors
all
sin.
For
such guilty wretches
to
come
before
the face
of
God, though with groans
and
tears, would
but
set
our
rebellion
and
guilt
before his
eyes,
awaken
his wrath,
and
put
him
in
mind
of
deserved
vengeance
;
but
when
Christ appears
as
a petitioner,
he
is
approved
and
heard
:
For he
is
the
Son
of
his
love,
he
is
all
holiness:
No
man can
come
to
the
Father but
by him
;
John
xiv.
6.
Therefore
we
dare
not
trust our-
selves
in
m
eaner
hands.
He
is
able
to
keep
what
is com
mitted
to him
unto
the
great
day,
and
to
save them
to
the
uttermost
that
come
to
God
by
him
;
seeing
he
ever lives
to make
intercession
for
them;
and
is
such
an high
priest
as the
Son
'o,
f
God, holy,
harmless,
and
undefiled;
Heb.
vii.
25, 26.
He
pleads for aliens and strangers,
in the
virtue
of
his
sonship
;
for criminals,
in
the
efficacy
bf
his
obedience
;
and
we
joyfully commit ourselves
poor
sinful
and perishing
strangers and
criminals, to
him,
to be
introduced
into
the
Father's
presence, because
he has
the
most powerful influence,
and
the strongest
interest in
heaven.
6.
He
lives
for
ever;
Rev.
i.
18.
I
am he
that
liveth,
and
was
dead,
and
behold
I
live
for
evermore.
Amen.
He
therefore
that
hath
known
death
by
experience,
and
now
stands
firmly possessed
of
eternal
life,
is
the
most
proper
person
that
I
can
trust
with all my
concerns, my
flesh
and spirit, for
life
and
death, for time and
eternity.
Should
I
presume
to make
myself
my own
keeper, yet my
utmost care
could
pretend
to
reach
no
further
than
the
term
of
this
life
;
for whither
I
go
in
death
is
all
dark-
ness to
me,
if I
had
not
known
Christ
and
his
gospel,
who
has
"
brought
life
and immortality to light;"
Tim.
i. 10.
And notwithstanding all
those
discoveries
of
the
fu
ture
state,
I
am
still
incapable
of
providing
for
myself
in
the
invisible world.
My soul
and
body
are then sepa-
rated, and
I
cannot
keep them together, nor take care
of
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