Main QUESTION OF. THE GOSPEL CATECHISM, What think ye of Chrift? BEING The SUBSTANCE of fome SERMONS on BY The Reverend Mr. RALPH ERSKINE, Minister of ACTS iv. II. This is the Stone which was fet at nought by you Builders, 1 THE Main QUESTION OF THE GOSPEL CATECHISM. Matth. xxii. 42. What think ye of Chrift? M Y Friends, if ye have any Regard to the Voice of the Son of God, fpeaking to you in this Text, then, to be fure, the Application of it is begun, before ever we come to the Explication of it. And indeed, if the Lord himself would open and apply it to you, you would fee more in it than we can tell you. Perhaps many here, when the Minifter reads his Text, turn up their Bibles, and put a Mark upon the Place of Scripture; Very well, but then they think there is the Minifter's Text, and so no more of it, as if it were only the Minifter's Concern, or at moft, that it is only the Minifter's Bufinefs to speak to his Text, and their Business to hear what he fays. But, my Friends, you wou'd know, that you have here more than a Text, and it is my Business at the Time, not only to read you à Text, but to ask you a Question; and I cannot refume my Text without propofing it, What think ye of Chrift? And it is your Bufinefs, not only to hear, feriously what is faid, but to anfwer folemnly before God what is asked, namely, What think ye of Chrift? If you take it up fimply as my Text, you will think yourselves little concerned with it; but if you apprehend it as Christ's Queftion to you, then your Concern is great: It is not my Queftion only, but as Chrift propofed it to the Pharifçes |