...convey is communicable to the very lowest degrees of wretchedness and sin ; and the saying is faithful, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, even the chief. Here then we behold far more luminously and gloriously than in either...

...uncle, I may get to heaven, and have a place near the dying thief?' " 'Yes, yes,' said I, ' you may. 'It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, even the chief of them.' ' Whosoever cometh to me,' says the compassionate Redeemer,...

...diligently seek him," unless we ourselves are of this description ? What doth it profit us to believe that it is " a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners," unless we embrace this great salvation ? How are we the better for acknowledging...

...truth of what is declared, and a confident expectation of «4,at is promised. The testimony is this. " It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners." " God so loved the world as to give his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth...

...himself, and on the other, his admiring views of the Divine mercy. He glories in the declaration, that " it is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners" — and instances himself, for the encouragement of all that should hereafter believe,...

...happiness there. And indeed it is quite true that that is the great thing that religion is meant to do : " It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners : " and the salvation of a sinner, in the largest sense of it, concerns mainly his...

...only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.' ' It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.' 'As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be...

...will toward men." Think of the condensation of the Gospel given by the apostle : " This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners." Say that all this is untrue, what then ? Whatever I do not know, this I do know,...

...felon is the superscription written for despairing guilt and trembling penitence, " This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners." " He never yet," says Charnock, " put out a dim candle that was lighted at the Sun...

...to the riches of his grace. Gal.i.4. Who gave himself for our sins. 1 Tim. i. 15. This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. 1 Cor. xv. 3. Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures. Heb. i. 3. When...