RELIGION OF LOVE. A LIFE OF LOVE, therefore, is the best, the only evidence, which its disciples can give, of the fincerity of their profeffion; and the surest method they can take of recommending it to others. "Let your light, then, fo "fhine before men, that they may fee your good works, and glorify your "Father which is in Heaven." DISCOURSE DISCOURSE II. JEREM. CHAP. xxiii. Part of Ver. 6. "AND THIS IS HIS NAME, WHEREBY HE SHALL BE CALLED, THE LORD TH HE great and effential diftinction betwixt the legal and evangelical difpenfation, is accurately pointed out by the Apostle, where he tells us, that “ the "law is but the fhadow of good things "to come, and not the very image of "the things." Its types, ceremonies, and outward ordinances, are taken from the objects of temporal nature, which are, at best, but shadowy reprefentations of Eternal Truth. "The comers there"unto could never be perfected," by the the most minute obfervation of its external rites. The pious, fpiritual Jew, therefore, would look further than these, and would confider every outward purification, as figuratively expreffive of an inward cleansing to be performed in his heart. Mofes, their infpired legiflator, and the prophets that fucceeded him, did not fail to acquaint them with the immediate and necessary reference of these temporal fymbols to Spiritual and Eternal Truths. Nevertheless, it appears but too evident, from the whole Jewish history, that the generality rested their hopes of falvation, merely upon their outward law: "They 66 went about to establish a righteousness "of their own," founded upon a strict obfervance of the Levitical ceremonies, which were only adapted to their present circumstances, without paying the leaft attention to that Inward Law of Righte oufnefs, |