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yall the candoor to receive it, when offered, but were in a caf« to break hi^ bande, and cavl away chords, and ttooe his prophets, and crucify own Son, fVau^t with alt we needed* On tbi accounts or iosensibiltty, iogratitudd, and proud defiance, which make men pass an object by^ and leave it to deal a while longer with lU miaeri It wa« that God «ent his ocily begotten Kuo seek and save; who, " thouj^h rich, for our aakfft became poor, that we tfaroug:b hia poverty mi|^ become rich. Scarcely for a righteous mail will ono die, peradventure for a good man aoaie would even dare to die. But Grid contmc^Ddctfc his love to us in that, while we were yet amtsn* Christ died for us. " By this transaction of the Saviour, which it Hprcad out in the Gospel, and which truly is the essence ot the Gospel, a new light was throwv upon the nature of love and kindness, which bad not been known since darkness and gross darkneti sat down upon the world at the Fait. And wbero- as men had been conteat to pick and cull amoog the objects of its charity, and choose oat the wvM. 1 III.] 001>'» COKTHOVRhSr WITH THE LAKD. 947 dftft^rving, IcaTmg thft Dthers to ahift for lh«iii<' A^'Itpa. until [liey improvt^il Iftdr riiiuin^rs ; and wheress n^eii expected a prvsent reKirn ft>r their ffiflft in i^mtitude, and future repftyment of fa- vour if needed, they were tmighl by this exhibi- tion of the Uodhend to lave their etieniies, lo give expecting Dothing m return. Mver lo revenge^ never to pn»ccote^ but evermore to pity and help, and to forego even right and justice ftir the «ake of mercy, where it consists with provision for oar own houflcUoUK honesty lo our neighbour, and charity to the distressed. This our Lord called a new commandmcDt, " lo love one another/' And truly it wan new to the world then ; a&d now, after twothoiiKAiid years' propagation, it i^ new aa ever to the huart of man, which still, in doing ita kind* ne^a, \n attracted by the promising appearance, rather than the UDpromieiug Kppearttuce, of the object. Pfow, if I undcrBtand the law of Chria- tiftn charity aright, it i» this; That aa Uod was attracted unto u% not by the pruftcnce, but the absence, of thoite qualities which he loved, viewing us to be iherofare the more remote from the hftppinens which cannot without those qiialiues exist;— having no inducement, bjt our wretched- neas to be removed ; no argument, but our con- tentedne»s in the midst of it, and deadneas to Bui;h( hi!lti"T ; no pirl it toners but t»ur blindni'SH, our insenBibili