This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838. Excerpt: ... SERMON XV. BOLDNESS. Ephes. iii. 12. In Whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the Faith of Him. I need hardly tell you Who this is, in Whom, says the Apostle, " we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of Him," namely, Christ Jesus our Lord; but it is not perhaps every one who knows what is the boldness and access with confidence which Christians may have, because they do not know, really, what is the faith of, or in Him. Now suppose we were here in the world with the law of Moses done away, and therefore all outward sacrifices for sin taken out of our hands: suppose, as we well know must be the case, we were guilty of sins without number, and were every day making the number greater: suppose in this situation we had no SaViour, no hope of a Mediator or Intercessor between God and us, what must we think would our prospects be? Knowing as we should that God was good above all possibility of overlooking sin, that He was just too and would give to every man his due, that He was allseeing and could see what was every man's due; what could we do but tremble and look forward to the reward of lives according to our iniquities, and that we should be dealt with according to our sins? But, suppose in spite of this knowledge some man among us were to pretend to have no fear, and to be able to approach God of himself, what would such boldness avail him? Now, I have made this dreadful, and we may thankfully say, this impossible supposition, in order to prepare you to receive with more understanding, and greater thankfulness, the meaning of the Apostle's declaration, namely, that the only way in which we can have boldness and access with confidence to our Father which is in Heaven, is by the Faith of Him, Jesus Christ. Boldness, as used by...