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the grace of God, that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us, that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously and godly in this present world.' Titus ii: 11, 12.

This is to be effected through the influence of the gospel, which is represented by the New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven; Rev. xxi. 2-and by the new heavens and new earth; Isa. lxv: 17. II Pet. iii: 13. It is also represented as Mount Sion, in contra-distinction to the law. 'For we have not come unto the Mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice, they that heard, entreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more ; for they could not endure that which was commanded. And if so much as a beast touched the mountain, it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart. And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake. But ye are come to Mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the first-born,

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and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.' Heb. xii: 18-24.

This gospel was designed to benefit all, and to be communicated to all, as Peter learned by his vision of the sheet let down from heaven.— Acts x: 11. It views all men as alike needy, for all are under the dominion and power of sin, and need to be redeemed therefrom. Hence, the apostle says, 'We have proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin.'Rom. iii: 9. 'For God hath concluded all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.'Rom. xi: 32.

This gospel is called a light-that true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.' John i: 9. Under its reign, a new order of things was to take place; for it was a new and better covenant. 'For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws in their mind, and write them in their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. And they shall not teach every man his

neighbor, and every man his brother, saying know ye the Lord: for all shall know him from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.' Heb. viii: 10-12.

This promise or covenant was not to be confined to Israel alone, for it was said to Isaac 'In blessing will I bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies. And in thy seed, shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.' Gen. xxii: 17-18. The same promise was repeated to Jacob, xxviii, 14, and first made to Abram, Gen. xii: 3. This seed, the apostle says, was Christ, And the Scripture, fore

seeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, in thee shall all nations be blessed. *** He saith not, and to seeds, as of many; but as one, and to thy seed which is Christ.' Gal. iii: 8, 16.

This promise is true, whether men believe it or not; as says the apostle, 'What if some did

not believe? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid. Yea let God be true, but every man a liar. Rom, iii: 3-4. So it makes no difference as to the result, whether men will believe the gospel as preached to Abraham or not. Their belief or

unbelief cannot alter the truth. Truth is truth whether men will believe it or not. It can only effect themselves. By closing their eyes and ears to the truth, they will involve themselves in guilt and misery, and this is all they can do.

In this plan we see the wisdom from on high displayed. But there are many who will not believe. They declare weeping and wailing, pain and torment shall be eternal; while the Scripture affirms, HE will wipe the tears from off all faces, and there shall be no more pain. Isa. xxv. 8: The wisdom from above declares, all are included under sin, that God might have mercy upon all; the wisdom of this world avers there are some on whom he never will have mercy. The one affirms all the families, nations, and kindreds of the earth shall be blessed in the seed of Abraham; the other that but a few will be thus blessed. The one declares God is in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, the

other that God is in Christ reconciling himself to a part of the world. The one teaches that all things shall become new under the reign of Christ; the other that but a part of all things shall become new. The one declares God will have all men to be saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth; the other affirms he will have no such thing: but purposes to dam forever, a part of mankind, in that intolerable hell they say he has built. The one teaches that death shall be swallowed up of victory; the other that eternal death shall triumph over a large por tion of our race without end. Thus do unbelievers stagger at the promises, and pervert the Scriptures, and array it against itself. They thus forge the deadliest weapons for the infidel, by bringing distrust upon the consistency of scripture with itself. By their cruel and inconsistent doctrines, they not only rob God of his glory, and heaven of its inhabitants, but fill the Bible with contradictions. By such proceedings they not only fill others with terror and despair, but themselves with that fear which hath torment. Thus they show themselves the enemies of mankind. But those who labor to evince the scriptures are consistent with themselves-are

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