yields neither holiness here nor happiness hereafter? Do you believe the living God when he declares, As many as are of the works of the law are under the curfe; By the deeds of the law there fhall no flesh be juftified in his fight, and yet will you deliberately remain under its bonds? Is the houfe in flames over your heads and yet no anxiety about efcaping? Do the lightnings blaze around you and yet no enquiry after a fhelter from the storm; Are you bound fast in chains, the prifoners of indignant juftice, without the leaft concern for deliverance? The captive exile hafteneth that he may be loofed, that he may not die in the pit neither that his bread fhould fail, and will you, can you remain unconcerned in all the horrors of your natural eftate; without God, without Jefus and without hope? Is there no balm in Gilead, is there no phyfician there that you thus languifh and perifh in your difeafes ? Behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be unto all people, for unto you is born a Saviour, even Chrift the Lord. Through his undertaking as the fecond Adam, the Lord from heaven, all the injuries fuftained by the first Adam are fully repaired. Did the former violate the law and come fhort of the glory of God; by the fecond it is magnified and made infinitely honorable. Did the firft entail condemnation and death on all his natural offspring, he that believeth on the fecond hath everlasting life and fhall not enter into con

demnation. Did the first by tranfgreffion forfeit the favor and fellowship of Jehovah, the second is revealed as the way, and the truth and the life, and all who enter in by him fhall be faved.How reviving the thought, he has made peace by the blood of his crofs. Here the cloud which blackened over our devoted heads fuddenly evanishes, and a ray of hope beams upon the fickening eye, cheers the drooping fpirit. It is a faithful faying and worthy of all acceptation, infinitely, infinitely worthy of immediate acceptation, as it fecures reconciliation with an offended God, imparts peace to the awakened confcience, and joy to the difconfolate heart, that Jefus Chrift came into the world to fave finners. He is the end of the law for righteoufnefs, will you not acquiefce in this law as fulfilled by his obedience and facrifice? He proclaims liberty to the lawful captives, will you refufe that freedom which he has procured, procured at the expence of his own blood? He has brought in everlasting righteoufnefs, will you deliberately reject this immaculate, this immortal robe? Come, fellow finners, as ye are, come without any delay and cordially receive that faviour who is asking admiffion into your hearts: Believe in the Lord Jefus Chrift, and all the bleffings of falvation fhall be yours; pardon fhall be yours, for there is no condemnation to them that are in Chrift Jefus : adoption shall be yours, for those who are natu

rally afar off become nigh by the blood of Jefus Chrift; reconciliation fhall be yours, for we are accepted in the beloved; we are reconciled to God by the death of his fon; eternal glory fhall be yours, because he that believeth in the fon hath everlafting life. The fpirit and the bride fay, come; let him that heareth come; let him that is a thirst come; and whofoever will, let him take the water of life freely. AMEN.

Sermon IV.

Death the Juft and Natural Confequence of Sin.

ROMANS v. 12.

AND DEATH BY SIN.

YOUR meditations were directed, on the laft Lord's day, to the preceding clause of this verfe, by one man fin entered into the world; we then attempted to confirm the fcriptural doctrine, the doctrine maintained by the proteftant churches throughout the world, of our reprefentation in Adam, and confequently of our immediate concern in his tranfgreffion; that when he difobeyed and fell, we, as reprefented by him, neceffarily difobeyed and fell; that by the offence of this one man judgment has paffed upon all men to condemnation: We alfo attempted to vindicate the juftice of God in that part of his procedure, by thewing that the appointment of Adam to be the representative of his pofterity was not only reasonable, but calculated to promote their real intereft.

FROM the paffage now chofen for difcuffion, we are led to confider the direful confequences of this tranfgreffion; and death by fin. But the fubject is utterly beyond our refearch; it incon

ceivably furpaffes what the pen of mortals is capable of unfolding, or the mind of mortals is capable of comprehending. To exhibit in its full extent the awful import of this monofyllable DEATH Would be to recount all the miferies which have, like a mighty torrent, overflown our world nearly fix thousand years; nay, it would be to represent all the wretchednefs which this moment tortures the unnumbered millions of the human family; all that fome are now enduring from exquifite difeafe, others from nakedness and hunger, others from horror of confcience, others from the lofs of connections dearer than their lives, refufing to be comforted because they are not; others from the burning fun of a fouthern, others from the freezing cold of a northern re gion: These are all ftreams from that fathomlefs fountain which was opened by our tranfgreffion in Adam; and do not make up the ten thou fandth, thoufandth part of the miferies which it iffues forth; to unfold the full meaning of this DEATH Would require us to furvey the regions of hell, and to represent the fufferings of the damned through the ceafelefs ages of eternity to come; the gnawings of that worm which never dieth, and the tormenting fury of those flames which fhall never be quenched: To these we muft alfo add all that wrath which was endured by the infinite furety from his cradle to his crofs. He was delivered for our offences; He fuffered for our fins the juft for the unjust. The