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to separate us from the love of God | which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I COR. 1: 18. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

HEB. 2: 14. Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver them, who, through fear of death, were all their life-time subject to bondage. For verily he took not on him the nature of Angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. 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 sins of the people. For in that he himself hath suffered, being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted.

GAL. 1: 4. Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world.

1 COR. 1: 23. We preach Christ crucified.

2:2. I determined not to know any thing among you save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

GAL. 3: 1. Before whose eyes, Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified, among you.

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mity even the law of commandments, contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man; so making peace; and that he might reconcile both unto God, in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby.

T5: 2. Christ hath given himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God.

REV. 13: 8. The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

5: 6. I beheld, and lo in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb, as it had been slain.-9. They sung a new song; saying, Thou art worthy to take the book... for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood. - 12. Worthy the Lamb that was slain.

JOHN 10: 15. I lay down my life for the sheep.

ACTS 4: 12. There is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved ; but the name of Jesus Christ.

ROM. S: 21. But now, the righteousness of God, without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God, which is by faith in Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all them that believe.

1 PETER 3: 18. Christ hath once suffered for sins, that he might bring

1 COR. 15: S. Christ died for our us unto God. sins.

1 TIM. 2: 5. There is one God and one Mediator between God and man, the Man Christ Jesus.

ROM. 5: 10. We were reconciled to God, by the death of his Son.

2 COR. 5: 18. God hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ. God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself.

COL. 1:19. It pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell, and having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things to himself.

ROM. 5: 1. We have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ. EPH. 2: 13. But now, in Christ Jesus, ye, who sometimes were far off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ: for he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition; having abolished in his flesh the en

2 COR. 5: 14. If one died for all, then were all dead. He died for all that they which live should live unto him who died for them.

Acts 15: 11. We believe that through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved.

EPH. 2: 5. By grace are ye saved. MAT. 26: 26. And as they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; for this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many, for the remission of sins.

GAL. 2: 15. We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that

we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless, I live; yet not I, but Christ 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. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ' is dead in vain.

3: 19. Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is not a mediator of one; but God is one. "Is the law then against the promises of God?" God forbid for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be reveal ed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

1 PETER 2: 24. Who, his own self, bore our sins in his own body, on the tree, that we being dead to sins should live unto righteousness; by whose stripes we are healed.

§ 3. THIS DELIVERANCE PROVIDED

FOR THE WHOLE WORLD.

ROM. 5 12. Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned-for until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law; nevertheless, death reigned from

Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

And not as it was by

one that sinned, so is the gift. For the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. For if by one man's offence, death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. Therefore, as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 JOHN 2: 2. He is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only: but for the sins of the whole world.

HEB. 2: 9. We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that he, by the grace of God, should taste death for every man. . 17. To make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

1 TIM. 4: 10. We trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, specially of those that believe.

2: 1. I exhort, therefore that first of all supplications, prayers, intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men; for kings and for all that are in authority, for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and man, the Man

Jesus Christ, who gave himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time.

2 Cor. 5: 19. God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself. MAT. 18: 11. The Son of man is come to save that which was lost.

JOHN 3: 17. God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.

10: 9. By me if any man enter in he shall be saved.

T1 TIM. 1. 15. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

HEB. 7: 25. He is able to save unto the uttermost, all who come unto God by him.

MAT. 18: 10. Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones: for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. How think ye? If a man have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine

world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth, cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

1 COR. 15:21. Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

2 COR. 5: 14. For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them, and rose again.

LUKE 24: 46. Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day; and that repentance and remission of sins might be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

CHAPTER II.

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is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

LUKE 13: 34. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not. Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

JOHN 3: 16. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world, to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned; but he that believeth not, is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the

BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.

[For the character of this agent, see "God denominated the Holy Spirit, &c. page 65.]

§ 1. CONVINCING OF SIN.

JOHN 16: 8. When he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.

ACTS 6: 10. They were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit, by which he [Stephen] spake.

§ 2. RENEWING THE HEART. EZEK. 11: 19. I will put a new spirit within you.

36: 26. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you. And I will take away

the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them.

JOHN 3: 5. Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water, and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

6: 63. It is the Spirit that quickeneth.

Ro. 8: 1. There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of Christ, hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

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2 COR. 3: 3. Ye are the epistle of Christ, written with the Spirit of the Living God, in fleshly tables of the heart.

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GAL. 3: 3. Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh ?

TI. 3: 5. God, according to his mercy saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.

1 PET. 1: 22. Ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit.

COL. 2: 13. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses.

to hide me. Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy Spir it is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

ISA. 32: 14. The palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left... until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field.. then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field: and the work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.

ZECH. 4: 6. Thus saith the word of the LORD; not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit saith the LORD, shall ye prevail.

12:10. I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication.

MAT. 3: 11. He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.

Ps. 51: 11. Take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore. unto me the joys of thy salvation, and uphold me by thy free spirit: then will I teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

JOHN 7: 87. If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. But this spake he of the Spirit, which they who believed on him should receive; for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because Jesus was not yet glorified.

14: 14. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. If ye love me, keep my commandments: and I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you. - 25. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

§ 3. ENLIGHTENING, SANCTIFYING, you, and shall be in

AND UPHOLDING THE CHRISTIAN.

MAT. 26: 28. This is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many, for the remission of sins.

NEH. 9:20. Thou gavest thy good spirit to instruct them.

Ps. 143: 9. Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee

15: 26. But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you

from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me.

16: 8. It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of sin, because they believe not on me ; of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit, when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you.

TACTS 1: 5. John truly baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.

2: 1. When the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting... And they were filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

10: 44. While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost, for they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God.

ROM. 5: 3. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also; knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

8:9. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now, if

any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the Spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

ACTS 9: 31. The churches, walking in the fear of God, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.

¶ Roм. S: 5. They that are after the Spirit do mind the things of the Spirit.-26. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what to pray for as we ought; but the Spirit maketh intercession for us, with groanings that cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts, knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints, according to the will of God.

14: 17. The kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

15: 13. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. 16. That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

1 Cor. 2: 9. Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things

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