+I. The import of the salvation proclaimed in the Gospel.+--It is deliverance from all the evils that have been brought on us by the Fall. 1. From ignorance, not of science, but of God. 2. From guilt, or the penalty which the law inflicts. 3. From the power of sin, of which we are slaves. 4. From the sorrows and calamities of life, which it does not remove, but alleviate and transform. 5. From the power and fear of death. 6. From everlasting perdition. +II. The persons to whom this view of the Gospel is specially applicable.+--1. To the unconverted. It teaches them what they are. 2. To the awakened. It teaches them what they need. 3. To believers. It awakens their gratitude, it reproves their lukewarmness, it stimulates their charity. +III. The reflections to which this view of the Gospel gives rise.+--How precious in our estimation should be--1. the Gospel, 2. the Saviour, 3. the Saviour's work, 4. the Saviour's ordinances, 5. the Saviour's servants and people, 6. the Saviour's second coming.--_G. Brooks._ _The Truth and Divinity of the Christian Religion._ +I. It is reasonable to suppose that God should at some time or season fully and clearly reveal unto men the truth concerning Himself and concerning them as He and they stand related to each other, concerning His nature and will, and concerning our state and duty.+--Argued from 1. His goodness, 2. His wisdom, 3. His justice, 4. His Divine majesty. +II. That no other revelation of that kind and importance has been made, which can with good probability pretend to have thus proceeded from God, so as by Him to have been designed for a general, perpetual, complete instruction and obligation of mankind.+--1. _Paganism_ did not proceed from Divine revelation, but from human invention or diabolical suggestion. All the pagan religions vanished, together with the countenance of secular authority and power sustaining them. 2. _Mohammedanism_ an imposture. 3. _Judaism_ was defective. (1) This revelation was not general--not directed, nor intended to instruct and oblige mankind. (2) As this revelation was particular, so was it also partial--as God did not by it speak His mind to all, so did He not therein speak out all His mind. (3) It was not designed for perpetual obligation and use. +Conclusion.+--No other religion, except Christianity, which has been or is in being, can reasonably pretend to have proceeded from God as a universal, complete, and final declaration of His mind and will to mankind.--_Barrow._ Vers. 13, 14. _The Assurance of the Christian Inheritance._--By the first act of faith the whole tendencies of man's life are reversed. Until then the present has been his world and the earth his place of rest; then, by the inspiration of the cross, a spiritual world draws upon his view, that everlasting region becomes his home, and life assumes the character of a pilgrimage. We need to have the deep assurance of the immortal kingdom in order to live an earnest life in a world like this.