ening of thy faith! May the Lord render them effectual.

Reflect, Secondly, upon the undertakings of the Lord Christ, the surety of this covenant. There was nothing left out of the covenant; it was ordered in all things belonging to salvation, and Christ undertook to perform all things on the part of his Father, that his law might be magnified, and his justice made honourable and glorious; and on the part of the sinner, that he might be saved from all evil, and entitled to all good. And being God and man united in one Christ, he was a proper surety to reconcile God to man, and to reconcile man to God. Let these things then sink deep into thy heart, that thy surety has undertaken the whole of thy salvation, to do all for thee, and all in thee, and all by thee. What canst thou desire more for the settling of thy faith?

3. Perhaps thou wilt say, his under. takings were great, but has he fulfilled them? Yes, and so perfectly, that he is able to save to the uttermost. He was called Jesus, because he was to save this people from their sins; as their surety he

was to fulfil the law for dience and to suffer the ties of it by his death a cordingly, in the fulnes manifest in the flesh, an will of his Father: of his will, he thus speaks,"the work, which the do:" Of his suffering with his last breath, "It serve, whatever he under life and death was finish monstrated that as man done and suffered every the covenant, by his resu dead for then did the him to be the Son of G Will not all this satisfy t little faith? Here is one thy doubting removed; deny but Christ has finis he undertook, and in co of he has all power in hea bestow a full and fini What canst thou now ob 4. Does a thought ar

partake of it? Yes it comes to thee in the way of a free gift. Great, inestimable, and eternal, as it is, yet it is all thine in receiving. Not he who worketh, but he who believeth is justified from all things. It is by faith, that believers are justified and sanctified, are strengthened and comforted in their walk; by faith they fight against all their enemies, and by faith they conquer, and lay hold of eternal life. And therefore it is all of faith, that it might be by grace. Salvation is wrought out and finished by thy surety, given to thee freely, continued with all its blessings in time and through eternity, as a free gift, to the praise of the glory of free grace. Why therefore art thou discouraged? Hast thou nothing to buy with? Then obey the Lord's command, come and buy free salvation without money and without price. How should this motive still add to the establishment of thy faith! For here thou seest whatever thou wantest is thine by believing. Thou mayest have it freely by grace. It is treasured up for thee in the fulness of thy dear Saviour, and thou canst not honour him more, than to make free use of it. What dost thou say

to this? Hast thou any Canst thou find any fau nant of grace, or with of the God-man in it? covenant was well orde and sure, and what the s nant undertook he has Salvation is finished on glorified the law by his obedience, he has mad honourable by his suffer he has brought in everla ness for his people, and w everlasting glory: for h ken possession of it for t of the body, the church, power in heaven and eart day by day, until he make of his eternal salvation. heart wish for more, than and such a salvation? O! then, but believing, and if doubts left, endeavour to h ed up by reading and pra faith be perfectly settled o of God thy Saviour, and t

religion. They must be supposed in all its principles, and built upon in all its practice; therefore being of universal influence, if they be thoroughly established thy faith will be stedfast, and thy life well ordered and comfortable. Examine then, and prove thyself here before thou readest any farther. Dost thou believe Christ to be true and very God, in every perfection and attribute equal with the Father? and is his a full and free salvation? All the following directions depend upon, and can only profit thee, so far as thou believest these two points. Look well then to thy establishment in them. If it be strong, the life of faith will be steady and prosperous; but if it be weak, thou wilt be liable to be tost about continually with errors, and overcome with temptations, especially with those, to which a legal spirit will expose thee, as I purposed to shew under

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Third general head, in which is to be considered, how the little children in Christ for want of being established in the belief of his Godhead, and of his full and free salvation, labour under many doubts; a legal spirit working with their unbelief puts