The Argument and Connexion of the following DISCOURSES. SERM HRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE SERM comes very strongly recom- I. mended to us from its own Excellency and Importance; that Branch of it efpecially re lating to the Satisfaction of Chrift, which is II. the meritorious Caufe of our Juftification; as Faith, when found, lively and practical is its III. conditional one. To induce and enable us to attend effectually to this Condition, that it may at • last end in our Salvation, the Divine Grace IV. is promised to fupport our beft Endeavours. These are powerfully enforced from the Relation we ftand in to God, as his Children,---his Subjects,---and his Servants; as well as V. VI. from the Motives of Intereft drawn from VII. the Value and irreparable Lofs of the Soul. And that the Performance of our Duty may be acceptable, it must be in the Measure of it univerfal, and in its Progrefs per-IX. petual. A 3 VIII. THE Galat. ii. 16. Knowing that a Man is not juftified by the Works of the Law, but by the Faith of Jefus Chrift, even we have believed in Jefus Chrift; that we might be juftified by the Faith of Chrift, and not by SER M. V. 1 St. John iii. 2. Beloved, now are we the Sons of God, and it doth not yet appear, what we shall be: But we know, that when he St. Matth. vi. 33. But feek ye first the King- dom of God and his Righteoufnefs, and all thefe Things fhall be added unto you. 193 Rom. vi. 16. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves Servants to obey, his Servants ye are, to whom ye obey; whether of Sin St. Matth. xvi. 26. For what is a Man pro- fited, if he shall gain the whole World, and E |