SERMON XXIX, XXXIII. The Saving Sight; or, a View of God in Chrift, 420 JOHN xiv. 6. —He that hath seen me, bath feen the Father.— The words being viewed in their connexion, analized, explained, and fummed up in a doctrinal propofition, the following general heads of method are handled, viz. 1. The oneness betwixt the Father and the Son, opened up, 2. Some remarks offered concerning a faving fight of Christ, 5. The reafons why these who see Chrift, fee the Father, 426 431 443 455 469 465 6. The application of the whole, in an ufe of information, examination, conviction, confolation, and exhortation, PREVENTING LOVE: or, GOD's Love to us the Caufe of our Love to him. I JOHN iv. 19. We love him, because he first loved us. TH HE great defign of the gofpel, gofpel ordinances, and facraments, is to commend the love of God in Chrift. The facrament of the fupper is a love-feaft; and they that have their fenfes fpiritually exercised therein, will find readily all their fenfes filled with love. What do they hear, but love! What do they fee, but love! What do they tafte, but love! What do they feel, but love! What do they fmell, but love!— It is a sweet account we have of God, ver. 16. "Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down "his life for us." O happy they that have fo learned the gospel catechism, from their experience, as to be able to answer to that question, What is God? and to say, "God is love!" He is effential, boundless, bottomlefs, infinite love. It is true, if we look to him in the glafs of the law, we will fee him to be all wrath; a confuming fire out of Chrift; but look to him in the glafs of the gofpel, and you will fee him all love; 66 a * This Sermon was preached after the adminiftration of the Sacrament of the LORD's Supper at Portmoak, June 3d, 1723. |