9. * Thou ungodly one, who hearest or readest these words, thou vile, helpless, miserable sinner, I charge thee before God the judge of all, go strait unto him, with all thy ungodliness. Take heed thou destroy not thy own soul, by pleading thy righteousness, more or less. Go as altogether ungodly, guilty, lost, destroyed, deserving and dropping into hell: and thou shalt then find favour in his sight, and know that he justifieth the ungodly. As such thou shalt be brought unto the _blood of sprinkling_, as an undone, helpless, damned sinner. Thus _look unto Jesus_! There is _the Lamb of God_, who _taketh away_ thy _sins_! Plead thou no works, no righteousness of thine own! No humility, contrition, sincerity. In no wise. That were, in very deed, to deny the Lord that bought thee. No, Plead thou singly, the blood of the covenant, the ransom paid for thy proud, stubborn, sinful soul. Who art thou, that now seest and feelest both thine inward and outward ungodliness! Thou art the man! I want thee for my Lord. I challenge _thee_ for a child of God by faith. The Lord hath need of thee. Thou who feelest thou art just fit for hell, art just fit to advance his glory: the glory of his free grace, justifying the ungodly and him that worketh not. O come quickly. Believe in the Lord Jesus; and _thou_, even _thou_ art reconciled to God. SERMON VI. THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF FAITH. ROM. x. 5, 6, 7, 8. _|Moses| describeth the righteousness which is of the law, that the man which doeth those things shall live by them. But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise. Say not in thine heart, who shall ascend into heaven? That is, to bring Christ down from above: Or who shall descend into the deep? That is, to bring Christ again from the dead. But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart that is the word of faith, which we preach._ 1. THE apostle does not here oppose the covenant given by _Moses_, to the covenant given by Christ. If we ever imagined this, it was for want of observing, that the latter, as well as the former part of these words, were spoken by _Moses_ himself, to the people of _Israel_, and that, concerning the covenant which then was. (_Deut._ xxx. 11, 12, 14.) But it is the covenant of _grace_, which God through Christ hath established with men in all ages, (as well before, and under the _Jewish_ dispensation, as since God was manifest in the flesh) which St. _Paul_ here opposes to the covenant of _works_, made with _Adam_ while in paradise; but commonly supposed to be the only covenant which God had made with man, particularly by those _Jews_ of whom the apostle writes.