New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-11-20

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most lucid. They prove their point onI % = OF 10
value and they take away from the people those
objective -lories ot the new covenant AMI the new
creation-witho.t e Inch 70 : not 50 proper s. ap-
proprsfe So promis ing.--that they can oe sancu-
he'd which is only O. be changed IN the same ima-e
from glory O. glory even rs by the spi1t OF the Lord
But when Won rccolect that the w0rshiplus man
is the subject o. tAs process. you recolect thar he
sees and feels and understands the transformation
AMI that the subject j. filed with pleasure and not
with pain. and that be feels with Just conscience
the wondrous Nominations OF the divine spirit and
loves Die saviour aud -0res on ms Saviour Tor
there are n0 pleasures which earth can command
which can compare with the pleasures of devotion
here.
have only 70 add that We find in substance here
the character OF all our own saints whatever else
Won nav say about them, my dear hearers mean
m who are saved some are lost Bat the per
lection Of the glory Of eternal justice subscribing
the moral utilities OF the universe. demands their
punishment Illustrating Justice and iaw Tor the
benefit of the universe. Do not think that
there are not any utilities Ia hell as connected
with the universal sweep Of the monarchy Of
God. He does not punish even the ill-deserv %
in- TOR the sake 40 Furnishing them They get
what IS their due. and God would not give II them.
If he could not reach Interior ends in connection
with his infinite benefits on the throne. even 900
their penal sufcrings who are called sons OF per-
dit,on. and whose doom S the perdIton OBJ un-
may not lose yourselves IN hcatheniziug rover
euce as Do the salvation 90 the sauctined was the
salvation Of the species.
There Is no man going % heaven without hol-
ness Apart from toe absuriity n the nature oi
things As eternaIy resulting from the nature of
God the hmpossbiity of absurditiss-oh, what a
relative impossbit, % j. % dash against the thick
bosses of Jehoyah's buckler and make your way
against his word mean % contradict his word.
II 5 easier for heaven and earth 10 pass away than
for iot or title Of his veracty 70 fail His vera
city Is hmsclt-itis his glory and 70 : my humble
reason for believing what say.
Is 10 not now q question oi great interest w nAL
IS 10 % be one of the sanctihed And question of
great interest 90 you aud me. Am one u you
would laV tins t0 your heart honestly d YOU are NOT
sanctihei sou begin the process by finding out your
deiectious, and not by attempting 10 reason God
dow from his supremacy. and from hrs glory God
ln his infinite glory and perfection. IS what he " MS
aud ever will be- He cannot alter. and his truth.
like himself Is immutahe. The idea that he could
utter 10 to break h. predict it 90 ialsy lt, Is hru
tality that would disgrace New Zeslander.
We come now % the second part of our subject
IL 10 a fact M reference o. them that are saucti.
fed that their sanctIhcation would not oi ts'i
avail think t is. and most instructive Tact.
ln the first place. IL can make mo- stonement ior
their sins 10 cannot cancel the past 10 cannot
consist with the glorious claims OF eternal justice.
And then there IS another thing quite iundsmen-
tal-but for the atOnement of Christ. 70 never
would have eXisted-that sanCtlhcation which you
see displaying and opening aud defining the new
creation.-where God creates Jerusalem reioices.
and her people "a i0y.--never would have existed
As the Scriptures plainly tell us but rs the result
of Christi interp0stl0u the result of his sufeungs
on the cross Contrast the production. the re-
ward the consequences OF his death his resurec-
ton and his ascension n the courts of glory Tor as
For his salvation IS as any stupendous whole m
r1r ~ and ID u QSnprfs still "A
uhcent whole. and We should take n view oft the
whole m relation tO the parts, and % the parts iu
relation % the whole. And ask You. how could
God have had any other design lu giving MS such
penary revelation direct and indirect, as Is con
tanned IN this book but that our minds may be
filed with the truth. that the Lord Christ may
dwell n Us richly and that we may be made the
happy correspondents of his own mind and of his
own thoughts as he says, call you not serv-
ants but ! call you friends the servant know eth
not what his lord dOeth, bat ali things ! have
heard of ms father have said unto YOU. o how
Christ painted towards u.s. Ia all wisdom aud pru
deuce having made known % as the hidden and
1fherW Ise ineNtrcable mysteries of his VIII.
Let us consider then. their accomplishment Tor
glory as resulting wholly from tsc cross OF Christ
Tor by one Offering, he hath perfected forever them
that are sanctlhcd | pause here 10 ask you my
dear hearers, aud would ask the world, q could,
is this proposition adverse % the progress Of genu-
inc morality in the world What other PROPOSE
ton from Zoroaster % Mohammed, and from Mo-
manned % Joe Smith can, for one moment begin
10 compare. for attraction, Tor felicity, and glory.
and freedom. and genuine morality, with tins gcnu
iue sanctitcatou OF Christ Is not sauctlficatI0n
morality Can there bee any morality without Il
were it 70 be sublime and splendid IS Belshazzar
at h.s feast were % in the schools or n the sane
mary See II Deka.b we could not tell what was
meant by the word Dekab.-hcp0uer. does not
become is OminOus motto
Hrovy that "a m has what they call
virtues social, and, Il You please, scholastic aud
intellectual Where Is the man without sanctlh-
cation that has one lOt OF essential conformity %
the law of GOd There never was such man
there never VIII be among our apOstate species
and the dream of II only shows how sOpOric Is the |
influence OF Satans cause on his children. But |
here is a grand argument. IL is an argument |
grand because did not make lt-because 10 Is |
God argument. because 10 speaks ln the fact. ln
the language, through the senses, and certainly |
through them % the wants. But what IS 10 |
Them that are sanctihed need Christ. They can.
not do without him they are perfected for glory |
only by his one offering Notsothoso set-appointed
saints OF reason-and pity them so much that ! |
will not say one sarcastic thing about them ] |
would rather weep and pray for them, and for the
sake OF victory ! would not give one straw % con-
quer them but God VI. Jet me pity them aud
So viii yOu-whcn on the assumed basis OF one
moral goodness, as ii that We're itself sufficient,
Christs cross is sublimey advocated, when we
are told that we needed an atOnement Oi the Son
OF God suffering, the just for the unjust, because
DR.. Claiming was such good man, and so was
CELSIUS and the Apostle Peter. Let their goodness
be with the Judge eternal % inspect IT, ! have
only % say that the Judge eternal tells Us here OF
them that are sanctlhed, and have they no moral
virtues Are they destitute OF goodness Had |
Pau himself who wrote the book OF the Hebrews
none Were not Daniel, and Elijah, and Noah
and Enoch aud Paul as bounriully endowed
with the moral virtues as any Of modern times
And Is 10 necessary % perfect them that are sane
titled, that Chrsts offering, horrid, tragic. un-
paraleIed should be by an appointment OF God
realized 50 that Peter said % the murderous Jews
on the day Of Pentecost and the legions that had
nothing % DO .th his murder any more than We
had Him being delivered by the determined
counsel ami providence Of God Sc have taken, and
with wicked hands have crucihed and slain.
The contrast IS most electric, Is most illustri0us.
Hence the necessity Of the atonement Of God, in
the deficiency OF the sanctihed. 4 remarkable TACT
% is that those who have given the best evidence
in oh ages-u0t q 90 back farther than John Bun
san and Dr. Owen, % the l1th century-are the
men that directly aud indirectly preaching pray
ius, -caains ond in auiUst vsery act 0f common
he that they breathed, testified their un.orthi-
ness and their feebeness. Let me read YOU such
words - these from the pen Of the blessed Cow |