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exceedingly with a sense of the awful greatness and majesty of God; and
both of them told me to this purpose, that if, at the time, they had
entertained the least fear that they were not at peace with this so
great a God, they should certainly have died.
It is worthy to be remarked, that some persons, by their conversion,
seem to be greatly helped as to their doctrinal notions of religion. It
was particularly remarkable in one, who, having been taken captive in
his childhood, was trained up m Canada in the popish religion. Some
years since he returned to this his native place, and was in a measure
brought off from popery; but seemed very awkward and dull in receiving
any clear notion of the Protestant scheme till he was converted; and
then he was remarkably altered in this respect.
There is a vast difference, as observed, in the degree, and also in the
particular manner, of persons' experiences, both at and after
conversion; some have grace working more sensibly in one way, others in
another. Some speak more fully of a conviction of the justice of God in
their condemnation; others, more of their consenting to the way of
salvation by Christ; and some, more of the actings of love to God and
Christ. Some speak more of acts of affiance, in a sweet and assured
conviction of the truth and faithfulness of God in His promises; others,
more of their choosing and resting in God as their whole and everlasting
portion; and of their ardent and longing desire after God, to have
communion with Him; and others, more of their abhorrence to themselves
for their past sins, and earnest longings to live to God's glory for the
time to come. But it seems evidently to be the same work, the same
habitual change wrought in the heart; it all tends the same way,
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spit upon, buffeted, mocked, afflicted in innumerable ways, given gall to
drink (Ps. 68), pierced (Zech. 12), His feet and His hands pierced, slain,
and lots cast for His raiment.
He will rise again (Ps. 15) the third day (Hosea 6:3).
He will ascend to heaven to sit on the right hand. Ps. 110.
The kings will arm themselves against Him. Ps. 2.
Being on the right hand of the Father, He will be victorious over His
enemies.
The kings of the earth and all nations will worship Him. Is. lx.
The Jews will continue as a nation. Jeremiah.
They will wander, without kings, etc. (Hosea 3), without prophets (Amos),
looking for salvation and finding it not (Isaiah).
Calling of the Gentiles by Jesus Christ. Is. 52:15; 55:5; 60, etc. Ps. 81.
Hosea 1:9: "Ye are not my people, and I will not be your God, when ye are
multiplied after the dispersion. In the places where it was said, Ye are not
my people, I will call them my people."
728. It was not lawful to sacrifice outside of Jerusalem, which was the
place that the Lord had chosen, nor even to eat the tithes elsewhere. Deut.
12:5, etc.; Deut. 14:23, etc.; 15:20; 16:2, 7, 11, 15.
Hosea foretold that they should be without a king, without a prince, without
a sacrifice, and without an idol; and this prophecy is now fulfilled, as
they cannot make a lawful sacrifice out of Jerusalem.
729. Predictions.--It was foretold that, in the time of the Messiah, He
should come to establish a new covenant, which should make them forget the
escape from Egypt (Jer. 23:5; Is. 43:10); that He should place His law not
in externals, but in the heart; that He should put His fear, which had only
been from without, in the midst of the heart. Who does not see the Christian
law in all this?
730.... That then idolatry would be overthrown; that this Messiah would cast
down all idols and brin
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Deut. 8:19: "If thou do at all forget the Lord thy God, and walk after other
gods, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish, as the
nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face."
That strangers, if they loved God, were to be received by Him as the Jews.
Isaiah 56:3: "Let not the stranger say, 'The Lord will not receive me.' The
strangers who join themselves unto the Lord to serve Him and love Him, will
I bring unto my holy mountain, and accept therein sacrifices, for mine house
is a house of prayer."
That the true Jews considered their merit to be from God only, and not from
Abraham. Isaiah 63:16: "Doubtless thou art our Father, though Abraham be
ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not. Thou art our Father and our
Redeemer."
Moses himself told them that God would not accept persons. Deut. 10:17:
"God," said he, "regardeth neither persons nor sacrifices."
The Sabbath was only a sign, Exod. 31:13; and in memory of the escape from
Egypt, Deut. 5:19. Therefore it is no longer necessary, since Egypt must be
forgotten.
Circumcision was only a sign, Gen. 17:11. And thence it came to pass that,
being in the desert, they were no
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and spiritual experiences; and therefore people in general had formed a
notion in their own minds what these things were. But when they come to
be the subjects of them, they find themselves much confounded in their
notions, and overthrown in many of their former conceits. And it has
been very observable, that persons of the greatest understanding, and
who had studied most about things of this nature, have been more
confounded than others. Some such persons declare, that all their former
wisdom is brought to nought, and that they appear to have been mere
babes, who knew nothing. It has appeared, that none have stood more in
need of instruction, even of their fellow-Christians, concerning their
own circumstances and difficulties, than they: and it seems to have been
with delight, that they have seen themselves thus brought down, and
become nothing; that free grace and divine power may be exalted in them.
It was very wonderful to see how persons affections were s
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corruption; if there were no light, man would not hope for a remedy. Thus,
it is not only fair, but advantageous to us, that God be partly hidden and
partly revealed; since it is equally dangerous to man to know God without
knowing his own wretchedness, and to know his own wretchedness without
knowing God.
587. This religion, so great in miracles, saints, blameless Fathers, learned
and great witnesses, martyrs, established kings as David, and Isaiah, a
prince of the blood, and so great in science, after having displayed all her
miracles and all her wisdom, rejects all this, and declares that she has
neither wisdom nor signs, but only the cross and foolishness.
For those, who, by these signs and that wisdom, have deserved your belief,
and who have proved to you their character, declare to you that nothing of
all this can change you, and render you capable of knowing and loving God,
but the power of the foolishness of the cross without wisdom and signs, and
not the signs without this power. Thus our religion is foolish in respect to
the effective cause and wise in respect to the wisdom which prepares it.
588. Our religion is wise and foolish. Wise, because it is the most learned
and the most founded on miracles, prophecies, etc. Foolish, because it is
not all this which makes us belong to it. This makes us, indeed, condemn
those who do not belong to it; but it does not cause belief in those who do
belong to it. It is the cross that makes