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This is the main point you may observe by the way, that the Gospel was as fully preached to the Jews, as to us. So you see it was here, they had the same way of being saved, that we have, as great mercy promised and dispensed. Only these great mysteries of the Gospel wherein grace and mercy is displayed, were not opened so to them as unto us; they had the promises of forgiveness as fully and clearly, but knew not the grounds of them; as Christs incarnation, death, and resurrection, as we do; nor those glorious privileges in particular wch we have by Christ. For the proof of the main point, take that one place to make it good to you, Isaiah 1. 18. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they be red as crimson: •hey shall be as wool. The Prophet had exhorted them to learn to do well, &c. But the people might object: What shall we be the nearer for all this? if we be such great sinners as you have even now declared us to be? to prevent this the Prophet tells them, what though their sins be great and bloody sins, of the deepest dye of guilt? (there are many kinds of red, but crimson and scarlet are the highest) yet you shall be as perfectly cleansed from all your sins as if you should see scarlet turned as white as snow, or crimson as white as wool, and none of the former dye remaining: and when he tells this to them, mark his expression, Come, let us reason together, as if he had said, this is a point requires strong reasonings to persuade you to believe it; and indeed it is a hard thing truly to believe the pardon of