And if such is God's mercy, as we trust, to all men, wherever any one with a perfect heart seeks Him, what think you is His mercy upon Christians? Something far greater, and more wonderful; for we are elected out of the world, in Jesus Christ our Saviour, to a glory incomprehensible and eternal. We are the heirs of promise; God has loved us before we were born. He had us taken into His Church in our infancy. He by Baptism made us new creatures, giving us powers which we by nature had not, and raising us to the unseen society of Saints and Angels. And all this we enjoy on our faith; that is, on our believing that we have them, and seriously trying to profit by them. May God grant, that we, like Josiah, may improve our gifts, and trade and make merchandise with them, so that, when He cometh to reckon with us, we may be accepted! [1] Deut. xi. 18-20. [2] Deut. xxxi. 9-13. [3] Deut. xvii. 19, 20. [4] 2 Kings xxi. 11. [5] 2 Chron. xxxiii. 15-25. [6] Ibid. 23. [7] Luke x. 43. [8] 2 Chron. xxxiv. 3. [9] Isa. l. 10. [10] Ps. cxi. 10. [11] Ps. cxix. 100. [12] Judges xiv. 14. [13] 2 Kings xxii. 11. [14] Deut. xxx. 16, 19. [15] Deut. xi. 26-28. [16] Vide Deut. xvii. [17] 2 Chron. xxxiv. 21. [18] Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity. [19] 2 Kings xxiii. 22. [20] 2 Kings xxiii. 25. [21] 2 Chron. xxxv. 23-25. [22] Isa. lvii. 1. [23] Zech. xii. 11. [24] Jer. xxii. 10. [25] Eccles. xlix. 1-4. [26] 2 Kings xxii. 2. [27] Rom. ii. 7. [28] 1 John iii. 7. [29] Rev. xxii. 14. SERMON VIII. Inward Witness to the Truth of the Gospel. "_I have more understanding than my teachers, for Thy testimonies are my study; I am wiser than the aged, because I keep Thy commandments._"--Psalm cxix. 99, 100.