vain confidence, what lack I yet? How much ráther should we come to Jefus in the words of king Hezekiah, (acknowledging our poverty and diftrefs,) Lord undertake for me. Untill Chrift by his fpirit is formed in your hearts, you are in want of all things; you want the primum mobile, "without faith it is impoffible to please God," and all your works not enlivened by the spirit of God, are but a dead carcase, odious and deteftible in the eyes of a pure, holy, and fin-hating God.

To conclude, "If Chrift be in you the hope "of glory, if Chrift dwells in your hearts by "faith, what do ye lack ?" In him "ye are com

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pleat," in him "ye have righteousness and "ftrength. All is yours, when ye are Chrift's, "and Chrift is Gods." What remains for you, but to walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, "denying ungodliness and worldly "lufts, living foberly, righteously, and godly in "this prefent world; looking for that bieffed hope, "and the glorious appearing of the great God "and our Saviour Jefus Christ. Gird up, my "brethren, the loins of your mind, be fober, "and hope to the end, for the grace that is to "be brought unto you at the revelation of Jefus "Chrift." You need not be afraid to fell all that you have, whose portion the Lord is; for all your wants fhall be more than fupplied from his abundant fulness. "Set your affection on things above, let your converfation be in heaven, let your lights fo fhine before men, that they feeing your good works may glorify your father "which is in heaven; for the Lord will give grace and glory, and no good thing will he "withold from them that walk uprightly.

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As by one man fin entered into the world, and death by fin, fo death pased upon all men, for that all have finned. Rom. v. 12.

All we like sheep have gone aftray, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. If. liii. 6.

David defcribeth the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works. Rom. iv. 6.

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PRETEND not to fet the fubject of the following fheets in fo ftrong and clear a light, as that persons who are difpofed to cavil, may not cenfure feveral things as being obfcure, incorrect, injudicious, &c. &c. feeing no writer, facred or profane, has ever yet been so happy as to escape the cenfure of fome, who have conceived of, and viewed things in a light different from himself. And should the charge of obfcurity, &c. lie ever fo full against me, and that in the judgment of the most candid and judicious; I pretend neither to infallibility, nor the deepest penetration; I judge according to the ftrength of the evidence I have, and fpeak and write according to my judgment; I may mistake, and who is infallible. Few or none are bold enough to deny this awful truth, that they are finners; though it must be acknowledged too few feem fenfible of the evil of fin, and the dangerous condition they are brought into by it; but forafmuch as we are thereby left liable to be loft, and eternally ruined, it certainly becomes (at least every thinking person) feriously to enquire into the means of deliverance, and restoration to the forfeited favour of his ma