The Thirty second SERMON.

The Thirty second SERMON.¹

1. 1Sermon 32.

JOHN 3. 18. ¹—But he that believeth not is condemned already, ²because he hath not believed in the Name of the only begotten Son of God.

1. 1Text.
2. 2The Condemnation of unbelievers opened and applied.

Christ having discoursed Nicodemus in the beginning of this Chapter about the necessity of regeneration, proceeds to show in this following discourse the reason and ground why regeneration and faith are so indispensably necessary, viz. Because there is no other way to set men free from the curse and condemnation of the Law. The curse of the Law like the fiery serpents in the wilderness, hath smitten every sinner with a deadly stroke and sting, for which there is no cure, but Christ lifted up in the Gospel, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, ver. 14. Neither doth Christ cure any but those that believingly apply him to their own souls. The result and conclusion of all you have in my Text, He that believeth in him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, &c. In this clause which I have pitched upon, we find these three parts.

CHrist having discoursed Nicodemus in the beginning of this Chapter about the necessity of regeneration, proceeds to shew in this following discourse the reason and ground why regeneration and faith are so indispensably necessary, viz. Because there is no other way to set men free from the curse and condemnation of the Law. The curse of the Law like the fiery serpents in the wilderness, hath smitten every sinner with a deadly stroke and sting, for which there is no cure, but Christ lifted up in the Gospel, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, ver. 14. Neither doth Christ cure any but those that believingly apply him to their own souls. The result and conclusion of all you have in my Text, He that believeth in him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, &c. In this clause which I have pitched upon, we find these three parts.