Sermons on Important Subjects (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON III, REVELATION XXII. ir. And whosoever win, let him take the water of life freely. 1 Hough water be highly valuable, it is obtained without any expense. Hence in the holy scriptures, the blessings of the gospel are often compared to water. These blessings, though they be of the greatest value, are freely offered to sinners. By the prophet Isaiah, God says, u Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters; and he that hath no money. Come ye, buy and eat; yea come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. In the text the same blessings are offered in the same manner. Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. These words afford for our consideration this important doctrine: To every one, who will accept the blessings of the gospel, they are freely given. To illustrate this doctrine it may be observed, 1. That through the atonement, God can bestow the blessings of the gospel upon sin- ners freely. The law threatens eternal death to every sinner. But the Lord Jesus Christ, by his death on the cross, has made an atonement for sin. And now God can, consistently with his truth and justice, release from the punishment which is threatened in the law, every person who avails himself of Christ's death. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that Ljelieveth. God can be just and the justifier of him that be- lieveth in Jesus. In the wondrous scheme of/edemption through Jesus Christ, mercy and truth meet together, righteousness and peace embrace' each other. Truth consents to have mercy bestowed upon sinners, to whom wrath was threatened. And righteousness consents to offer peace to the enemies of all righteousness. Since Christ, by his death, has made an atonement for the sin of the world, God can, consist...