. Sermons on various subjects, evangelical, devotional and practical : adapted to the promotion of Christian piety, family religion and youthful virtue. us questions need no answer, be-cause they, in no respect, concern us. The Judgeof all the earth will do right. That God who hasgiven a Revelation, can, in such ways as he pleas-es, communicate himself to those who seek afterhim ; for great and marvellous are his works. There is another question more important, andmore easily answered, Whether we who enjoy thegospel, can be saved, if we live in opposition to it ?This is a question which the go
. Sermons on various subjects, evangelical, devotional and practical : adapted to the promotion of Christian piety, family religion and youthful virtue. us questions need no answer, be-cause they, in no respect, concern us. The Judgeof all the earth will do right. That God who hasgiven a Revelation, can, in such ways as he pleas-es, communicate himself to those who seek afterhim ; for great and marvellous are his works. There is another question more important, andmore easily answered, Whether we who enjoy thegospel, can be saved, if we live in opposition to it ?This is a question which the gospel has who put the word of God from them, judgethemselves unworthy of eternal life. Behold, yedespisers, and wonder and perish. To such a ques-tion the same answer is to be given, as our Saviour,gave to one who asked him a similar question—Whether few should be saved ? Strive to enter inat the strait gate. Be not curious to know, how itwill fare with others. Be solicitous for out your own salvation ; for many who en-joy the offers and means of salvation, will, throughtheir own neglect, perish, and be lost 45 -^^ The Works of God, as King of Saints^ great andmarvellous. ^^ REVELATION xv. 3. Great and marvellous are thy vcorks, Lord God Almighty ; justand true are thy ways, thou King of saints. G .tOD is here acknowledged in the charac-ter of King of saints. And his works, as King ofsaints, are called great and marvellous. These works of God we are humbly attemptingto illustrate. We have shewn, I. That the work of redemption, which Godlias wrought, and in which the saints are peculiarlyinterested, is a marvellous work. II. That the various revelations, by which Godhas brought the saints, in the several ages of theworld, to the knowledge of this redemption, are al-so marvellous. I proceed now to a farther illustration of thisgrand and solemn theme. III. The dispensations of Gods providence to-ward the church, in correcting and punishing h
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