when Jefus Christ shall come again in his glorious Majefty, to judge both the Quick and Dead, we may rife to the Life immortal, through Him, who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghoft now and ever. AMEN.

Our Father &c.

MEN and BRETHREN,

I

am about to lead your Meditations to a Subject, which contains the Effence and Marrow of the Gofpel. "Tis not a Matter of Indifference whether we regard it or not: All that is dear to us in the eternal World depends upon our being right. Be ferious therefore and give me your Attention. And if what is delivered is important, intelligible, and agreeable to the Word of God, I hope you will not difregard it upon Account of the Plainness of the Language, or the Unworthiness of the Speaker. If it is not important; if it is not eafy to be understood; if it is not agreeable to the unerring Word of God; I wish you most feriously not to be influenced by it. To your candid Judgments I make my Appeal.

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ROMANS iii.

23, 24, 25, and 26.

For all have finned and come short of the Glory of God; being juftified freely by his Grace, through the Redemption that is in Chrift Fefus: Whom God bath fet forth to be a Propitiation through Faith in his Blood, to declare bis Righteoufnefs for the Remiffion of Sins that are paft, through the Forbearance of God; to declare, I fay, at this Time his Righteousness; that he might be jut, and the Justifier of him, which believeth in Jesus.

T. PAUL's Epiftle to the Romans contains

the compleateft Body of Divinity the World ever faw. The Doctrines of Grace are therein taught with a Perfpecuity and Strength of Argument, peculiar to the great Apostle. Like a wife Mafter-Builder he lays the Foundation of the whole Gofpel Scheme in the fallen Condition of Man. The first Chapter undeniably proves to us, that the whole Gentile

Gentile World were under Sin; and confequently in a State of Condemnation: "For the Wages of Sin is Death". In the fecond and third Chapters the zealous Apostle turns the Sword of the Spirit against his Countrymen, the Jews; and proves from their own received Scriptures, that they too, as well as the despifed Gentiles, were under Sin, and in a State of Condemnation.

Now fince the whole World of reafonable Creatures, at the Time this Epiftle was wrote, confifted of Jews and Gentiles alone, it is manifeft, that when he had proved those two grand Divifions of Mankind to be without Exception in a State of Sin and Condemnation, he had proved the whole World to be fo. Therefore it is he draws this general Conclufion; "We know that what Things foever the Law faith, it faith to them who are under the Law, that every Mouth may be stopped, and all the World become guilty before GOD. Therefore by the Deeds of the Law there fhall no Flesh be justified in his Sight; for by the Law is the Knowledge of Sin". That is: The

Law