Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1889-10-18
ELoouENT SERMON.

| NUN Nv Asbufy M. Nc. Church Oenttn
NAL Observances. Thursday Evening
October IL. 1850.
Gal. III, %. "But the scripture hath
concluded all under sin that the promise
py iaith Of Jesus Christ might be given
TO them that believe"
Tho scriptures contain the statement
surely the wrath OF man shall praise
thee" and they furnish their own demon.
etFatiOn OF It's correctness, the strong.
eet OF which is the epiftle before us. IL
Paul the doctrina and practical errors o
the Callahan churches were an unmixed
| cup oil bitterness. Yet, In tho providence
Of God, even these beresies are made The
occasion Of an insp red defense oil the
very cardinal primo les of Christianity:
q defense wh CHI has come down tue ~ es.
ever an armory and bulwafk to the
church when assailed. A d Tense that
amid the darkness of arlanism, the
storms OF Romanism, the murk OF anti.
nomiaI ism and the ice OF rationalism,
like the Edistope out of the midst OF the
troubled waters 1t rears its head, un-
shaken by the fury Of the blast; throwing
out TO the tempest-tossed a light which
indicates at once the rocks of danger and
the course OF safety, until the darkness;
Ia passed. And It still stands to encour-
age and and assure that which 1t saved In
the hour OF danger.
| No question can be more practical or
mere important to man than Tint which
enllghtens him NJ to the attitude of his
Creator toward himself aud how that at
titude may be made most iavo, able. And
Tor this pnrp Cd comes the conclusion
and expedlent of the text: "For the
scripture hath concluded, &c."
Here arc two propositions for our con.
sidorat on:
!. The scriptural conclusion with refer
eDcs to the moral condition OF man.
ii. The seriptnsal txpedient Ia view Of
that conclusion.
/ The scnptural conclusion.
We must remember that conclusion
lie not wish, opinion or argument, but
fact Not process of deduction or of
Induction but Il result the correctness OF
which depends upon the character of the
premises, tue knowledge, wisdom and
integrity OF the reasoner. Here H. Ia said
The Ter pture ha'h concluded, meaning
bat this 10 the end reached by It's author
aud herein recorded. Now If It be rue
that all scripture Is given by inspiration
Of God then Is He he author, hence the
reasoaer, hence the conclusion Is HIS,
and upon His knowledge, wisdom aud
tn h depends the correctness OF the de-
iuctl0n, und who shall DOUBT this when,
zee, Pa. li4:l7, Joo ixI. Deut. xxi:
3, 4.
l. The conclusion Is sustained by the
con ditiop of the world.
3. By the patiarchai allotment.
3. BY the ri usl oil Moses.
4. By the eIpiation OF Jesus.
8. II is further corroborated by human
reason, exp Renee and observation.
Under this bead extended quotations
were made from DIR. l.. I. Townsend,
Pascal, Bovee, Ralph Erskins, John Brad.
ord, the English martyr; Samuel Mars
den, the New Zealand missionary: Goethe.
TIL mas, rhepard, President Edwards and
IRON John Fletcher.
Alas he proposition is more than con-
trmed BY the CO. ditloh OF the world, the
patriarchal allotment, the Mosaic ritual,
tue sacrifice of Christ, and by all human
reason, experience ard observation.
lniqdity works by all the powers and
as broken out in its terrible disease
through all parts OF the being. What II
knew and were about 10 relate the sins
Of your life, the thoughts of evil and
hNHNS ~ hhNoHg NOulu
here be, what shrieks of angui-b, what
emptying of Golfers to purchase silence.
Oman, may God save thee from the fond
OF thine own life and the hell OF thine
own bosom.
Wisely, justly, bath the scriptures con-
cluded all under stu, "iOr that all have
sinned aud come short of the glory of
God. and there Ia noue that doeih good,
no not one" "For we have before proved,
&c." Rom. Ill; 9-l8.
This conclusion is the verdict OF a
Divine jury, the opinion of the Judge OF
all the earth. 1t has not BEEN reached
upon the testimony of fallable witnesses
but from the ac ual observation OF the
Lord OF all. Gen. Wis, ll.l2. Psa
xiy:23
All were and are under the dominion
power and deluslon of ain, and II all are
under sin, then the doom of sin Is the
doom OF all.
In courts OF justice the jury hear the
evidence and though much of IL is cii-
and some OF 1t contradlc-
tory, yet, from its general bearing, they
unanimously conclude the p isoDer guilty
and convict him. The judge, from the
verdict OF the jury and the law In the
case, concludes TO conlemn aud pro.
nouDces sentence. The governor, from
CAe verdict OF the jury and tho sentence
of the court. concludes TO sign the death
warrant. The sheriff, 10 obedience to his
instrnc ions and with the death warrant
In his hand, executes the sentence upon
the wretched prisoner, aud on the day ap-
p intod he dies. But, when God, through
''the scripture, concluded all under ain
1t was that the promise by faith Of Jesus
Christ might be given TO them that be.
lieve."
II. The scriptural Expedent in view OF
the conclusion.
The blessed Jesus took the testimony
of the witnesses, the verdict of the Jury,
the sentence OF the judge, the warrant OF
the governor, and the instruction of the
exccu,ioner, aud mailing them to His
cross baptized them with the blood that
flowed from His wounds 10 rivers of mercy
for the healing of the nations.
I. The promise to which tho text re-
fers 10 that of universal blessing through
his SIT d made 70 Abraham, which seed IL
Christ, and which promise is the saliva
ton by Hin procured. For the Scrip
ture iorSeeing, DC. Gal. Ill; 3, 10, 10, II,
IS.
The promise Is not annulled by the
shutting up, nor opposed by It. There Is
perfect harmony between them The
promise was riven for salvation, the con-
clusion for conviction, for SPY the law
is the knowledge Of SIM" 1t puts the
sinner in straight where he oaunot but
realize his danger and the futility Of de-
pending on the law, lis captor, or upon
his own efforts for escape from the thrall-
dom of sin, for, the Scripture hath con.
cluied all under sin for this very pur-
pose, that the promise by faith OF .Jesu.
Christ might be given to them that be.
lieye.
Hence we see the absolute necessity of