Sermons, on the following subjects

IT would be a crime inexpressibly heinous to set little by the glory and excellency of such a person; but it is more so, to set nothing at all by it, as you do. You have no value at all for it, as has been shown.—And this is the more aggravated, as Christ is a person whom you so much need, and as he came into the world out of infinite grace to sinners, to lay down his life to deliver them from hell, and purchase for them eternal glory. How much has Christ done and suffered, that you might have opportunity to be saved! Yet you set nothing by it all; you set nothing by the blood of Christ, even by that blood that was shed for such poor sinners as you are, and that is offered to you for your salvation. But you trample under foot the blood of the son of GOD.—If Christ had come into the world only to teach us, it would ⟨p. 68⟩have been a heinous thing, to trample under foot his word and instructions. But when he came to die for us, how much more heinous is it to trample under foot his blood!

MEN take it hardly to have any of their qualifications or actions despised, which they esteem commendable. But especially do they highly resent it, when others slight their kindness. And above all when they have put themselves out of their way, and have denied themselves, and suffered considerably to do others a kindness; then to have their kindness despised, and set at nought, is what men would above all things resent. How heinous then is it, and how exceedingly provoking to GOD must it be, thus to set at nought so great kindness and love of CHRIST, when from love to sinners he suffered so much?

CONSIDER how highly the angels who are so much above you, do set by the glory and excellency of Christ, by which you set nothing. They admire and adore the glory of Christ, and cease not day nor night to praise the same in the most exalted strains.