...RECEPTION OF THE GOSPEL. [Preached at Hempstead, Herts, after an Ordination Service.^ •g '82 COR. vi. I. We then, as workers together with him, beseech...you also, that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. WHAT a melancholy truth, christians, does my text imply ! That men may receive the grace of God...

...li.m to be sm for us, who knew no sin ; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. VI. 1 We then as workers together with him, beseech you also, that ye receive not the grace of God in vain: PARAPHRASE. dane relations, considerations, and interests', are ceased, and'at an end ; all things...

...world ; he it is who is the day of salvation. There is salvation in no other name. 2 Corinthians, vi. 2, " For he saith I have heard thee in a time accepted,...succoured thee : behold, now is the accepted time, behold, now is the day of salvation." God in the beginning made two great lights, the one to rule the day,...

...dispensation of the word and ordinances, in your destitute societies, and gladly receive the grace of God — For he saith, "I have heard thee in a time accepted,...succoured thee; Behold now is the accepted time; Behold now is the day of salvation!" — 1 Cor. vi. 1, 2. It will always afford the General Synod much pleasure,...

...hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God fn him. We then as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain." The grace of God here as in many other places, means the gospel, which the apostle tenderly...

...beseech you by us i we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. Compared viitk 2 Cor. vi. 1. We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also, that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. Ver. 2J For tie saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have...

...smners to accept the salvation so compassionately provided, so graciously and freely offered, adds, " We then as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain." 5th. For the gospel, or that light or knowledge that arises from the preaching of the gospel,...

...and in the day of salvation I succoured thee, (Isaiah xlix. 8.); behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. 3. Giving no...that the ministry be not blamed: 4. But in all things recommending ourselves as the ministers of God, by much patience in afflictions, in necessities, in...

...Christ,"* and making known eternal life, through him, to lost and miserable man. He hath* proclaimed, " I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day...succoured thee: Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation: Receive not, therefore, the grace of God in vain."f The punishment which...

...reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen. The Epistle. 2 Cor. vi. 1. WE then, as workers together with him, beseech you also, that ye receive not the grace of God in vain ; (for he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured...