with his stripes we are healed. v. 6. All we like sheep have gone astray: we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. V. 10. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him, he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his foul an offering for fin, he shall fee his feed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall profper in his hand. v. 11. He shall fee of the travel of his foul, and shall be fatisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many: for he shall bear their iniquities. v. 12. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the fpoil with the strong: because he hath poured out his foul unto death: and he was numbred with the tranfgreffors, and he bare the fins of many, and made interceffion for the tranfgreffors.

g Rom. viii. 32. He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

b 2 Cor. v. 21. For he hath made him to be fin for us, who knew no fin: that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Mat. iii. 17. And lo, a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Eph. v. 2. And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us, an offering and

sacrifice to God, for a sweet smelling favour.

i Rom. iii. 24. Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ. Eph. i, 7. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of fins, according to the riches of his grace.

Rom. iii. 26. To declare, I say, at this time, his righteousness: that he might be just, and the juftifier of him who believeth in Jefus. Eph. ii. 7. That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace, in his kindness towards us, through Christ Jefus.

IV. 1 Gal. iii. 8. And the scripture foreseeing that God would juftify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. 1 Pet. i. 2. Elect, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience, and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. v. 19. But with the precious blood of Chrift, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot. v. 20. Who verily was fore-ordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you. Rom. viii. 30. Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also juftified:

tified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

m Gal. iv. 4. But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law. 1 Tim. ii. 6. Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. Rom. iv. 25. Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our juftification.

■ Col. i. 21. And you that were sometime alienated, and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled, v. 22. In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable, and unreprovable in his fight. Gal, ii. 16. (See letter c immediately foregoing.) Tit. iii. 4. But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, v. 5. Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the holy Ghost; v. 6. Which he shed on us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour; v. 7. That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs acording to the hope of eternal life.

V. Mat, vi, 12. And forgive us

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our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 1 John i. 7. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all fin. v. 9. If we confefs our fins, he is faithful, and just to forgive us our fins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteoufness. I John ii. 1. My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye fin not. And if any man fin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. v. 2. And he is the propitiation for our fins: and not for ours only, but also for the fins of the whole world.

p Luke xxii. 32. But I have pray. ed for thee, that thy faith fail not; and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. John x. 28. And I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of my hand. Heb. x. 14. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are fanctified.

q Pfal. lxxxix. 31. If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments: v. 32. Then will I vifit their tranfgreffion with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. v. 33. Nevertheless, my loving kind

law, that we might receive the adoption of fons.

Rom. viii. 17. And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ: if fo be that we fuffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. John i. 12. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.

Jer. xiv. 9. Yet thou, O Lord, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name, leave us not. 2 Cor. vi. 18. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my fons and daughters, faith the Lord Almighty. Rev. iii. 12. Him that over cometh, will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerufalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new

name.

d Rom. viii. 15. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Eph. iii. 12. In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him. Rom. v. 2. By whom also we have access by faith into this grace, wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

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f Gal. iv. 6. And because ye are fons, God hath fent forth the Spi rit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

g Pfal. ciii. 13. Like as a father pitieth his children: so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

b Prov. xiv. 26. In the fear of the Lord is ftrong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

i Matt. vi. 30. Wherefore if God foclothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is caft into the oven, fhall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? v. 32. For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. I Pet. v. 7. Cafting all your care upon him, for he careth for you. Heb. xii. 6. For whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth, and scourgeth every fon whom he receiveth. I Lam. iii. 31. For the Lord will not caft off for ever..

mEph. iv. 30. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are fealed unto the day of redemption.

* Heb. vi. 12. That ye be not slothful, but followers of them, who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

0 1 Pet. i. 3. Blessed be the God, and Father of our Lord Jesus Chrift, who according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope, by the refurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, v. 4. to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away

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way, referved in heaven for you. Heb. i. 14. Are they not all ministring spirits, fent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of falvation?

I. a 1 Cor. vi. 11. And fuch were fome of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. Acts xx. 32. And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them who are fanctified. Phil.iii. 10. That I may know him, and the power of his refurrection, and the fellowship of his fufferings, being made conformable unto his death. Rom. vi. 5. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death: we shall be also in the likeness of his refurrection. v. 6. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of fin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not ferve fin.

b John xvii. 17. Sanctify them thro' thy truth, thy word is truth. Eph. v. 26. That he might fanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word. 2 Theff. ii. 13. But we are bound to give thanks al