And faving faith is well content And wait for powerful moving gales. v Rom. v. 11, And not only fo, but we alfo joy in God, through our Lord Jefus Chrift, by whom we have now received the atonement. v. 17, See letter q. Gal. v. 6, For in Jefus Chrift, neither circumcifion availeth any thing, nor uncircumcifion, but faith which worketh by love. Acts xv. 9, God put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. Chap. xxvi. 18, To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of fins, and inheritance among them which are fanctified by faith that is in me. s Rom. iv. 16, Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace. Chap. xi. 6, And if by grace, then it is no more of works; otherwife grace is no more grace. Eph. ii. 8, 9, For by grace are ye faved through faith; and that not of yourfelves: it is the gift of God: not of works, left any man fhould boast I Cor. iv. 7, For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what haft thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why doft thou glory as if thou hadst not received it? Heb. xi. 11, Through faith alfo Sarah herself received ftrength to conceive feed, and was delivered of a child when fhe was paft age, because fhe judged him faithful who had promifed. . 17, By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Ifaac: and he that had received the promises, offered up his only begotten Sor. v. 19, Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead: from whence alfo he received him in a figure. v. 35, Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better refurrection. I Cor. xv. 10, But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me, was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. Pfalm lxxi. 16, I will go in the ftrength of the Lord God: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only. Song When pow'r's convey'd, I work; but fee, Yet nothing am, for grace is all. w II. Of rewards of Grace and Delt. In all my works I still regard iv. 16, Awake, O north wind, and come, thou fouth, blow upon my garden, that the fpices thereof may flow out. w Phil. ii. 12, 13, Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my prefence only, but now much more in my abfence; work out your own falvation with fear and trembling. For it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Gal. ii. 20, I am crucified with Chrift: Nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Chrift liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 2 Cor. xii. 9, And the Lord faid unto me, My grace is fufficient for thee; for my ftrength is made perfect in weakness. Moft gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Chrift may reft upon me. x Heb. xi. 24, 25, 26, By faith Mofes, when he was come to years, refused to be called the fon of Pharoah's daughter; choofing rather to fuffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasure of fin for a feafon; efteeming the reproach of Chrift greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he had refpect unto the recompence of the reward. y 1 Tim. i. 9, God hath faved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpofe and grace which was given us in Chrift Jefus, before the world began. Titus iii. 5, Not by works of righteousness, which we have done, but according to his mercy he faved us by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost. z Gen. xv. 1, After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vifion, faying, Fear not, Abram; I am thy fhield, and thy exceeding great reward. Pfalm lxxiii. 25, 26, Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I defire befide thee. My flesh and my heart faileth; but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. But where's the earning work fo broad, Rewards of debt, rewards of a Ezek. xxxvi. 32, Not for your fakes do I this, faith the Lord God, be it known unto you; be afhamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Ifracl. Rom. viii. 16, 17, The Spirit itself beareth witness with our fpirit, that we are the children of God. And if children, then heirs: heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ. 6 Rom. iv. 4, Now to him that worketh, is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. e Pfalm lviii. 11, Verily there is a reward for the righteous; verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. Ifa. lxii. 11, Behold the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy falvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. of d Rom, vi. 21, What fruit had ye then in those things, whereye are now afhamed? for the end of those things is death. 23, The wages of fin is death. Eph. v. 6, Let no man deceive you with vain words; for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Gal. iii, 10, For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curfe; for it is written, Curfed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. e Gal. iii. 13, 14, Chrift hath redeemed us from the curfe of the law, being made a curfe for us; for it is written, Curfed is every one that hangeth on a tree; that the blefling of Abraham might come on the Gentiles thro' Jefus Chrift; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Eph. i. 13, 14, In Chrift also after that ye believed, ye were fealed with that holy Spirit of promife, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased poffeffion, unto the praise of his glory. Rom.. v. 21, Grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life, by Jefus Chrift our Lord. And vi. 23, The gift of God is eternal life through Jefus Christ our Lord. * Through these oppofite voices of law and gospel. Hell can't in justice be my lot, f Rom. iii. 25, 26, Whom God hath fet forth to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remiffion of fins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time his righteoufnefs, that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jefus. g Romans ix. 15, 16, God faith to Mofes, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compaflion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth ; but of God that sheweth mercy. Tit. iii. 4, -7, But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he faved us by the wafhing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghoft; which he shed on us abundantly through Jefus Chrift our Saviour; that being juftified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. b Pfalm lxxxix. 35, 36, Once have I fworn by my holiness, that I will not lie unto David. His feed fhall endure for ever, and his throne as the fun before me. Heb. vi. 17, 18, Wherein God willing more abundantly to fhew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counfel, confirmed it by an oath; that by two immutable things, in which it was impoffible for God to lie, we might have a strong confolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope fet before us. Pfalm lxxxix. 14, Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne; mercy and truth fhall go before thy face. v. 16, In thy name fhall they rejoice all the day; and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted. v. 24, But my faithfulness and my mercy fhall be within him [David my fervant] and in thy name fhall his horn be exalted. v. 28, My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. i Heb. ii. 17, Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren; that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest, in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the fins of the people. 1 John i. 6, 8, 9, If we walk in the light, as God is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jefus Chrift the Son cleanseth us from all fin. If we fay that we have no fin, we deceive ourfelves, and the truth CONCLUSION. HERE is the riddle, where's the man For mafters fam'd that cannot scan, We justly those in wisdom's lift Whose bitter sweet experience blest Can clearly grafp it all. b Some babes in grace may mint * and mar, Yet aiming right fucceed : c But ftrangers they in Ifrael are, Who not at all can read. d effay. is not in us. If we confefs our fins he is faithful and just to forgive us our fins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. a John iii. 10, Jefus answered and faid unto Nicodemus, Art thou a master of Ifrael, and knoweft not these things? 6 Matth. xi. 25, At that time Jefus anfwered and faid, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou haft hid these things from the wife and prudent, and haft revealed them unto babes. And xiii. 11, Jefus anfwered and said unto his disciples, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. 1 Cor. iii. 1, 2, And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto fpiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat; for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. Heb. v. 12, 13, 14, For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God, and are become fuch as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that ufeth milk is unskilful in the word of righteoufnefs; for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who, by reason of use, have their fenfes exercised to difcern both good and evil. And vi. 1, Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith towards God, &c. 1 John ii. 12, 13, I write unto you, little children, because your fins are forgiven you for his name's fake.--I write unto you, little children, becaufe ye have known the Father. d 2 Cor. iv. 3, 4, But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are loft; in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, left the light of the glorious gofpel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 1 |