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THE

GOSPEL WORTHY OF ALL

ACCEPTATION;

OR,

THE DUTY OF SINNERS TO BELIEVE IN

JESUS CHRIST.

BY REV. ANDREW FULLER.

ABRIDGED BY THE LONDON RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY THE

AMERICAN DOCTRINAL TRACT SOCIETY.

PERKINS AND MARVIN, AGENTS.

1837.

37

что

.F8

1837

The original Work contains various references to other writers, and answers to objections: these are omitted, as not necessary in a reprint which is intended for general use at the present time.

THE

GOSPEL OF CHRIST

WORTHY OF ALL ACCEPTATION, &c.

PART I.

WHEREIN THE SUBJECT IS SHOWN TO BE IMPORTANT, STATED, AND EXPLAINED.

GOD, having blessed mankind with the glorious Gospel of his Son, hath spoken much in his word, as it might be supposed he would, of the treatment which it should receive from those to whom it was addressed. A cordial reception of it is called, in Scripture, receiving Christ, allowing him, believing in him, &c.; and the contrary, refusing, disallowing, and rejecting him; and those who thus reject him are, in so doing, said to judge themselves unworthy of everlasting life. John i. 12. iii. 16. Psa. cxviii. 22. Matt. xxi. 42. 1 Peter ii. 7. Acts xiii. 46. These are things on which the New Testament largely insists: great stress is there laid on the reception of the truth. The same lips which commissioned the apostles to go and preach the Gospel to every creature, added, He that Believeth and IS BAPTIZED, SHALL BE SAVED; BUT HE THAT BELIEVETH NOT, SHALL BE DAMNED. To as many as RECEIVED HIM, to

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