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"IF I SAY THE TRUTH, WHY DO YE NOT BELIEVE ME?" 
 
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 I'REACHED ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON, NOV. 21ST, 1858, IN 
 
 ST. Stephen's church, tusket, nova scotia. 
 
 BY THE 
 
 REV. PHILIP TOCQUE, A. M. 
 
 " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, 
 And all are slaves beside." 
 
 YARMOUTH, N. S. : 
 
 PRINTED BY A, LAWSON. 
 
 1858. 
 

 TrsKBT, Nov. 24th, 1858» 
 Rev. 4* Dmr Sir, — 
 
 We, the undersigned, ree^ctfully request bhe publioaiion of 
 your Sormon deliyered on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 21pt, ir 6t. 
 Stephen's Olfaroh. 
 
 JoHK V. N. Hatfield, 
 Thomas Kirby, M. D. 
 BoBBKT S. Eakims, 
 - ^ Job L. Hatfield, 
 
 Benjamin Richards, 
 Wm. L. Hatfield, 
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 TwsKBT, Nov. 28th, 1858. 
 
 I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of 
 yesterday, and shall feel great pleasure in complying with your 
 request. 
 
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 Messrs. J. V. N, Hatfield, Dr. Kirby, \ 
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 Thbs^ worda refer to our Lord's personal ministry on 
 earth,^ ^ Jesug said unto them, if God were jour Father ye 
 wou: . k,7.j me : for I proceeded forth and came from God • 
 fce^tacr 4ja.^e I of mysiolf, but Ho sent me. Why do ye not 
 U]Q:*vrf.^nd my ppeach? even because ye cannot hoar my 
 yroTci. Ya we of jouf iH;her the devil, and the lusts of your 
 ^rhor ye will dc . K j Wds a murderer from the beffmninff 
 ar.'i doodo not in the truth, because there is no truth fn 
 iiim. When he spoaketh a lie, ho speaketh of his own • 
 for he IS a har, and the father of it. And because I tell 
 you the truth, ye believe me not. Which of you convinceth 
 me^of sm? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe 
 
 During our Lord's personal ministry, he had exhibited to 
 toe Jews the most indisputable evidences of hisMesaiah- 
 toip ; he had proved in his own person the predictions of 
 me prophets concerning him, and urged them by the most 
 fowerful motives to believe on him. Aad this work of 
 
 Euce and mercy he continued for years to prosecute in the 
 ce of enmity and unbelief; ho patiently endured the most 
 fiolent opposition and contradiction of sinners against him- 
 •elf. Christ told them the truth : hence their pre] ud ices 
 •nd unbel ef. They could not give him a pat enFSrinT 
 «nd hreatened to kill him. &.s life wa^ blameless and 
 ^Thl * f ^ T^f °^*i ^o^v^c* him of anything wrong ; and 
 lb therefore fair y asks-- U I say the truth, why^do ye 
 
 t^^llZ' ""'] K^f. f'^ ^^'« ^^ oomnassion over the^r 
 £^ th^, ^K^fi,".? ^!^it^ saying-u jVrusalem, Jerusl- 
 i?lnfc„„t^K'"'•l*^ pTophote,and stonest them which 
 ^ aent unto thee, how often would I have gathere<l'thy 
 
children to^otlier, even as a hen gathereth her chickens 
 under her wings, (ind ye would not." 
 
 In discoursing to 3'ou on these words, wo shall endeavouir 
 to show that 
 
 TuE Gospel contains great and important truths. 
 
 Truth has been written and sung, preached and pro- 
 pounded, since time bepm, since Sinai's thunders shook the 
 burning raount, and God hiinseir placed the eternal ini print 
 of liis finger upon ha f'oreliead, giving it immortality and 
 j>owr-r on the tables of stone delivered to Mosos. It is im- 
 mutable and unchanging, riding in grandeur and undis- 
 turbed serenity, " a conqueror and to conquer'* irresistible. 
 The Philosophers and Sages of ancient Oroece and Rome 
 had been seeking for her in the musty archives of their phi- 
 ij8oph3\ All their teachings were but flickering lamps, 
 burning earthy oil ; but the truth of Christ is as tho sun 
 high in the heavens, shining in all his meridian splendour 
 and brightness — '* A light to lighten tho Gyntihs, and the 
 glory of his people Israel.'* 
 
 Wherever the truth of God has been proclaimed, it has 
 met with opposition. Tho Patriarchs and Prophets suffer- 
 ed. And when our Lord himself appeared on earth, he had 
 to prosecute his ministry in tho face of ingratitude and un- 
 belief. Tho Jewish people despised all hi^ counsel and 
 would none of his reproof. " Tliey cried otlt, Away with 
 him, crucify him, crucify him." I need not detail to you 
 the horrible persecutions under Nero, Doraitian. and other 
 lloman Emperors ; nor need I tell you of tho«e who suffered 
 in the fastnesses and dens and caves of the earth, nor of the 
 lighting of the fires of SirJthfield with the blood of the 
 martyrs who suffered for tlic truth of God. And in tho pro- 
 synt day, all who live godiy i 1 Christ Jesus must expect 
 persecution. Truth is potent, and will prevail. All at- 
 tempts to extirpate or effectually suppress it have proved un- 
 availing. It gathers strength from conflict, authority 
 from suflfcring, f^nd final victory fropi the Rshes' of its mar- 
 tyrs 
 
 " The truth of God is like the first faint light of the morn- 
 ing which we behold streaking the tops of the distant 
 
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 " More and moreiit spreads and grows, 
 Ever mighty to prevail." 
 
 The first grand truth tho Gospel reveals to us is, 
 
 1. The Existence of a God. — Tho world by wifdom 
 could not discover the true God. But the Gospel reyeals 
 to us the One only living and true God— ^Infinite, holy, 
 wise, just and Tjood — Tliat He ia an eternal, independent, 
 self-existent Spirit — Immutable, omnipresent, omniscient 
 and omnipotent — filling immensity with His presence — 
 Maker and Preser?cr ot all things. 
 
 The existence of God is demonstrated by tho wisdom and 
 power displayed in creation. The sun, moon and Stars, the 
 periodical revolution oTtho planets \ti tliei'r orbits, day and 
 night, seed time and harvest, summet and winter, show 
 
 " That Natnre is but a name for eq eft'ect, 
 Whose cause is God" — 
 
 That there are Three Persons, subsisting as Father, Son antl 
 Holy Ghost, arid that these Throe Personal itiea constitute 
 only One God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, in glory 
 equal, in majesty co-eternal. " there are three that bear 
 'i*ecord HI heaven : the Father, the Word, and the Holy 
 Ghost ; and these three are one." 
 The next grand truth the Gospel reveals to us is—^ 
 
 2. The Immortality of the Soui, and the Resurrection 
 df the Body. — The Grecian and Roman philosophers had 
 only dim and inadequate notions of futurity. Some .''' w of 
 them had some faint idea of the existence of the soul, but 
 what they asserted at one time, they doubted at another. 
 Of the resurrection of tho body they were totally ignorant. 
 Even the Jews saw futurity but in the dim and shadowy 
 dawn : they had only the twilight. It is under the Gospel 
 alone that the shadows flee away, and life and immortality 
 are brought to light. The Sadducees among the Jews be- 
 lieved in no resurrection : it seemed to be totally repugnant 
 to all their ductions of re&son and philosophy, that these 
 bodies of ours, after having crumbled into tho dark and si- 
 lent corruptioDB of the tomb, should at th© blast of a trum- 
 
|)flt, and tho voice of the archangel, be reaftiniatec!, and ap- 
 pear in a more glorious form of existence. For our bodies 
 ure composed of the same matter as the clods of the valley, 
 yon oak of the forest, and the flower of the field, that opens 
 its bright petals to tha sun, and perfumes the air with lie 
 fragrance. 
 
 But what has learning — what has human reason — what 
 Ims philosophy to offar ua on this subject? Why, she has 
 no consolation for herself, and can therefore administer 
 none to us. Pointing to tho grave, Here, she coldly cries, 
 \3 the end of man ; from nothing he Sprang, to flothiftg he 
 returns, all that remainfi of him is the dust. She wraps 
 the soul in the dark and dreary shroud of annihilation. — 
 With slow and lingering footsteps, philosophy walks your 
 church-yards, and as she consigns her loved ones to the 
 tomb, dropping oyer them her parting tear, and s'ghlng 
 her last farewell, in an agony of grief she asks, '* If a man 
 die shall he live again ?'• but there iu no ans'rer given to 
 the question. There is a veil that separates us from the in- 
 visible world, but tho hand of philosophy cannot draw aside 
 that veil ; but the moment the light of the Gospel shines 
 upon that veil it becomes transparent, and we see through it 
 the form of the friends over whose departure we wept, stand- 
 ing on the shores of eternity. These souls of ours shall 
 survive the drawn dagger and the pointed steel. Immorta- 
 lity is written upon them by tho ftnger of God. The soul 
 13 a living thing distinct and separate from the body. It is 
 spiritual and immaterial. A soul has a beginning, but no 
 end. There was a day of its birth, but there shall be no 
 dayof its death. 
 
 '< And shall the soul, the fount of reason, die ? 
 When dust aad darkness round its temple lie? 
 J)Id God breathe in it no ethereal fire, 
 Dimless and quenchless, though the breath expire ? 
 Then why were godlike aspirations given, 
 That scorning earth, so often frakne a heaven ? 
 Why does the ever-oraving wish arise 
 For better, nobler, than the world supplies ? 
 Ah ! no ! it cannot be that men were senf 
 To live and languish on in discontent 
 That souls were moulded to betray ful tnist — 
 To foel like God; and perish like the duat ! 
 
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 The r*pid yeara etaJl bury aU we love, 
 Nor leave one hope to leu&ite above ! 
 No more the voice of friendship ihall begik.Ue— 
 Nc more the mother on her infant f.mile,"" 
 Bat " anishing Sike flnow upon the deep, 
 Nature shall perish ia eternal sloop." 
 
 ** It is appointed unto all men onoe Co die, but afWr 
 death the judgment.'* 
 
 The light of the Gospel vevealr *o us ih« plaoe of depaYi- 
 etl spirits. Wg see the penitent af with Ohriai in Fara> 
 diM : we see Lazarus in Abraba3i'i>i boscm, and Diyes ia the 
 place of torment. Perhaps no discovery oi' revelation ii 
 more stupendous or more oonr utory shan the doctrine of 
 the resurrection of the dead. ** Dut some man will lay, 
 how are the dead raised up? and with what body do ihe^ 
 eome ?" How is it possible that all the little parts vfhl^U 
 make up the body, shall be again put together? We aoB^ 
 wer by taking up the words of the Apostle, and say — 
 ♦* According to the mighty working, whereby he ia ablo 
 even to subdue all things unto himself." *♦ Why should it 
 be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should 
 raise the dead ?" *• Marvel not at this j the hour is comu ^ 
 in the which all that are in their gravee shall hear the voice 
 of the Son of Man, and oome forth; they that have doce 
 good, unto the repurrection of life ; and they that have done 
 evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." " He that raie- 
 ed up Christ from tho dead shall also quicken your mortal 
 bodies bv his spirit which dwelleth ia you.** " The* trum- 
 pet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible; 
 and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put en 
 incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality." 
 Oar Lord said to the sister of Lazarus, though he wept and 
 sympathized with her: "Thy brothei shall Jive again." 
 ♦• I know," said she, ** that he shall rise again in the re- 
 surrection at the last day. Jesus saith unto her, i am the 
 resurrection and the life : he that believeth in me th agh 
 he wore dead, yet shall he live ; and whosoever liveth and 
 believeth in me shall never die." It wac to stamp bliss on 
 our immortality that Christ burst the barriers of the tomb, 
 
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 arose from the dead, and led captivity captive, ** overcame 
 the sharpness of death, and opened the kicgdom of heaven 
 to all believers." 
 Another great truth the Gospel reveals to U3 is — 
 3. Man's Moral Condition before God. — Man, when cre- 
 ated, was placed in the garden of Eden ; here he enjoyed 
 every thing which could possibly make him happy. He 
 came out of the hands of his Maker pure and holy. But 
 he had a command given to him, which he had the power 
 to obey or disobey. He disobeyed, and in consequence, 
 thus brouglit sin and death upon him and all his posterity. 
 *• Cursed is the ground for thy sake ; in sorrow shalli thou 
 eat of it all the days of thy life. Thorns, afso, and thietloB 
 shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of 
 the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, 
 till thou return unto the ground ; for out of it wast thou 
 taken ; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." 
 The doctrine of original sin is a great truth made known 
 to us in th» Gospel. And the 9th Article of the Church is 
 founded on this doctrine in these words r 
 
 " Origimal sm standeth not in tho faUing of Adam, (»a the Pe- 
 lagians do vainly talk) ; but it is the fault and corruption of the 
 nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring 
 of Adam; whereby man is very far gone from original righteous- 
 ness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil, so that the flesh 
 lusteth always contrary to the spirit ; and therefore in every per- 
 son born into this world, it deserveth Go'Fs wrath and damnation. 
 And this infection of nature doth remain, yea in them that are re- 
 generated ; whereby the lust of th« flesh, called in tho Greek, 
 phronema sarkos,* which some do expound the wisdom, some seO' 
 suality, some the affection, some the desire of the flesh, is not sub- 
 ject to the Law of God. And although there is no condemnation 
 for them that believe and are baptized, yet the Apostle doth con- 
 fess, that concupisoenee and lust hath of itself the nature of sin." 
 
 If we read the history of past agei of the world, we shall 
 be no less conviirced of tho depravity of man, than from the 
 Scriptures themselves. And the history of the prese-t times 
 only gives us a miniature picture of the ages past, present- 
 ing the same corruption of the human heart. In every age, 
 
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 in every clime, in savage and in civilized life, we bee that 
 " sin entered intu the world, and death by sin ; " '* for all 
 have sinned, and come ihdrt of the glory of God." 
 
 Go into distant lands, and what do we find ? The most 
 obscene rites and degrading superstitious are practiced. 
 Scarcely a star or planet that twinkles in the firmament, 
 the solar glory, and the moon, walking in her silvery bright- 
 ness, with all the starry train, have been respectively adored 
 as the gods of man. But need we range about the world 
 for proof that man is far gone from original righteousness.^ 
 need we go bdyond our own country? need we go b^^yond 
 our Own neighbc^rhbodV heed we go beyond our own hearts ? 
 No man can honestly look into his own heart, without see- 
 ing that it is the seat of impurity and wickedness. Be- 
 cause, remember that all the evil of the tongue, all the evil 
 of the hiBad, all the evil ot the hands, all the evil of any 
 part of the body, has its origin in the fountain of all evil — 
 the heart ; for *'* out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, 
 murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blas- 
 
 EbemieS ; these are the things which defile a man." " The 
 eart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately 
 wic^:od; who can know it?" 
 
 Here, in these hearts of ours, like tl e conflux of neigh- 
 boring streams pouring their waters into one common cur- 
 rent, all the evil passions that blacken and deface the soul, 
 meet and impel to deeds of darkness. Like yon river, that 
 has its source in the little rill, a tiny stream bubbling up, 
 it flows on, and as it meanders through the country, other 
 rivulets pour their waters into it. It .till rolls on acquir- 
 ing fresh accessions of strength from other tributaries, till 
 bye and bye the main current swells into a magnificent 
 river, on the bosom of which we hear the rippling of the 
 waves. Thus it is with sin in the heart. Like the river, 
 sin commences small at first; but as years increase, crime 
 is added to crime, until the soul is overflowed with the tor- 
 rent of sin. Sin in the human heart is like the handful of 
 snow tossed from the top of the mountain, and as it rolls 
 down its declivity, increases in size. Like the avalanches 
 in Switzerland, these had their origin in the blossom of 
 •now ; the single flake of snow, increasing year after year, 
 until at length it formed the tremendous avalanche, and 
 
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 crushed the devoted village bansath its weight. So it is 
 with sin in the heart ; like the single flake of snow, it goes 
 on increasing year after year, until at last it grows into a 
 moral avalanche, and if unrepented of, crushes the sinner 
 to eternal ruin. Sin is a worm that coils itself around the 
 heart and gnaws th« moral vitals ; it is a viper that duoks 
 the very life-blood of our moral existence. Sin is a gan- 
 grene, a moral cancer in the soul. We have read of nos- 
 trums to cure cancer in the body, but these have turned 
 out nothing more than palliatives. All agree that if any 
 roots of the cancer remain, it will continue to grow ; there- 
 fore, to effect a cure, it must be exterminated, root and 
 branch. So the cancer of the soul must be cut out by the 
 sword of the spirit of God, and healed by the blood of Christ. 
 <* The carnal mind is enmity against God ; it is ^^ot subject 
 to the Divine law. neither indeed can be." ** There is none 
 good, no not one." There is no human being tree from 
 sin. It cleaves to the cradled infant, and is the familiar 
 and life-long companion of tho man of hoary hairs. Wher- 
 ever a human heart throbs, it throbs under a weight of sin. 
 Wherever a human hectrt is struggling in the mighty battle 
 of life, it is struggling in the chains of sin. " The scrip- 
 tures have (joncl'ided all under sin." Thus, in the woraa 
 of the conlessicn of the Prayer-Book : *' We have left un- 
 done those things which we ought to have done ; and we 
 have done those things which we ought not to have done ; 
 and there is no health ;n us," 
 
 Though man is degraded and fallen, we see traces of his 
 former glory about him. In these shivered fragments float- 
 ing along the sea of time, and drifting upon the shores of 
 eternity, we see the remains of a once noble and glorious 
 structure ; — we can trace here and there the name of the 
 Maker, and the end and design of their creation. The beau- 
 tiful flower that has been torn by the autumnal tempest 
 from its parent stem, and crushed % the storm, is a flower 
 still ; we see traces of its former dlegance and beauty : al- 
 though bruised and wounded, nothing can destroy its iden- 
 tity as a flower. So with degraded man : thero are some 
 things so beautiful and lovely about him, that we can hard- 
 ly believe him to be no more than ruias, fragments of a 
 former perfection. As In passing through a country, we 
 
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 Bee the rains of a building, we form some idea of what that 
 building was in its original grandeur and beauty, from ob« 
 serving pieces of decoration and fragments of broken pil* 
 lars ; so the scintillations of kindness and benevolence which 
 burst from the soul of man, tell us what it once was, what 
 it might have been, and what it now ie. 
 
 Man, in consequence of his polluted and depraved na- 
 ture, is exposed to the wrath of God. The law violated, 
 pursues him with its curses. But while awful thunder and 
 lightning flash from Mount Sinai, the sunshire of mercy 
 gleams from the cross of Christ for guilty man. 
 
 And this brings us to another great truth which the 
 Gospel reveals to us — 
 
 4. The means and possibility of man's deliverance from 
 this guiU and danger. — No sooner had man sinned, than 
 the seed of the woman was promised to bruise the serpent's 
 head. Thus a medium Was provided through which sinful 
 man might be reconciled to God. Go to Calvary , and there 
 behold the ransom price of thy soul, Jesus hanging upon 
 the Cross. " He was in the form of God, and thought it 
 not robbery to be equal with God ; but he made himself of 
 no reputation, and took upon himself the form of a servant, 
 and was made in the likeness of man ; and being found in 
 fashion as a man^ he humbled himself, and became obedient 
 unto death, e^en the death of the cross." 
 
 Everywhere we see proofs of the goodness of God to man. 
 But where shall we go to see the most striking picture of 
 the goodness of God ? Take us through the most ample 
 walks of nature, and point us to the heavens studded with 
 sparkling worlds, whose periodical revolutions mark day 
 and night, summer and winter, seed time and harvest, and 
 while we inhaHo the pure air, charged with nitrogen and 
 oxygen gases for the sustentation of human life ; point us 
 to the smiling fields when the breath of spring diffuses her 
 " living green" over the landscape, when summer decks 
 them with verdure, and autun^n clothes them with fruit for 
 the sustenance of man. Let ua gaze at the sublime and 
 craggy rocks, as they lift their tall heads to the clouds, 
 around which the eagle soars, and where she reari her 
 young. Let us view the beautiful river winding along 
 ^.hrough flowery vales, flashing and sparkling in the sun- 
 
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 shine a. it leaps from rock to rock in musical caBcade. scat- 
 
 toring fertility on every ^^^f' . ^^^^ ^td a'nd eiWer 
 
 Whpther we turn our attention to \mi guiu u,u 
 an^oh mineral production, the varied Uut.gs of vhe 
 
 ihet rebehold the veil of the magnificent temp e rent m 
 
 wnen ^"^ """" . v -^ ]|j n^tiiro covered with a fune- 
 
 rr;;U and 7a Csa o'ver all the Und until the uin& 
 
 rlr it ia when we behold the moon turriing pale, the 
 
 ^lllafoVthearthtrembreVtl.: graves opening, and man, 
 ?hat»leT,t appearing. It .8 when wo hear that voice which 
 reverKtertlfroufh the universe, which made angels re- 
 •oTce wMoh Hk'hell to its centre and >-ade dev. s h-em 
 KU ■ »« It IS finished and ho gaVe up the ghost. tierem 
 
 ^?^\tLrwVloved.fa.bu|thath^ 
 -AiffffTris son to be the propitiation for our sins. uou oo 
 
 Wh world that ^.eVe his only begotten Son, ha. 
 XsoSver believeth in him might not perub, but have 
 rverlastTne life." <> It is a faithful sayipg and worthy of 
 all accepttt on, that Christ Jesus came into the world to 
 saTesfnCs" Ho "loved the Church and gave himself 
 sate sinners iti^ti„„ f.^ aur sins ; and no for 
 
 ourionlv but also for the sins of the whole world." " Je- 
 sus Christ by he grace of God, tasted death lor every 
 Z„" The love of %od to man is past human compreh.n- 
 ^on! It was'unmerited, dismtere/ed, und free ; no tongue 
 can declare it. " God so loved the world." Ihe gift it- 
 self hespeaks its greatness. 
 
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 13 
 
 In the prayer of Consecration in the Communion Service, 
 we read : 
 
 " Almighty God, ^ur Hearenly Father, who of thy tender mercy 
 didst-givo thine only son, Jesus Christ, to suffer death upon the 
 Gross for our redemption ; who made there (by his one oblation 
 of himself once offered) a full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice, ob- 
 lation, and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world." 
 
 And again in the 31st Article of the Church, vre have the 
 same doctrines in these words : — 
 
 '< The offering of Christ once made is that perfect redemption, 
 propitiation, and satisfaction, for all the sins of th« whole world, 
 both original and actual ; and there is none ofhex satisfaction for 
 sin, but that alono." 
 
 Thus we see how perfectly,, i^accordivnce with the truth 
 of the Qospei, is the liturgy of the Church of England. 
 
 There are other great truths which I should wish to.bring 
 before you— such as the gift of the Holy Ghost the com- 
 forter, repentance, justification, and the eternal duration of 
 future rewards and punishments. But time will not per- 
 mit rao. 
 
 The truth is of importance : hence the Church lacj^Ued 
 '♦ the pillar and ground of the truth." **And if 1 say the 
 truth, why do ye not believe me?" Brethren, you have 
 heard these great tri^ths repeated over and over. What you 
 want, then, is not the knowledge of them, but, to believe 
 them with the heart unto righteousness. Why was it that 
 the mass of the Jews rejected th€ truths taught by Christ 
 and his Apostles? Because of their prejudices, because of 
 their unbv^licf.. Hence we read of an " evil heart of unbe- 
 lief;" " and Ho could there do no mighty works because of 
 their unbelief;" " He marvelled because of their unbelief." 
 But you say you believe in the Holy Scriptures , — you be- 
 lieve in *' one" God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven 
 and earth ; and in one Lord Jesui Christ, the only begotten 
 son of God, who, for us men, and for our salvation came 
 down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost 
 of the Virgin Mary ; he suffered and was bufied, and th§ 
 third day he rose again from the dead, and ascended into 
 heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of tlio Father ; and 
 
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 the d«Ml ;"-you fJ?,''''':^^''Z^XuoS the Father 
 Ix,rd wd Giter of Lrfe. who proo^^^^^^^ „ 
 
 ;;Jr?ctioZJfthebod,.andthe.^^^^^^^^ 
 
 aom. of 70U are Uvmg >° ''^'"'"f jCrequ^ 
 
 Bay you ^«;i«; ^"f 'V'^ffiLg'the buthTnot believing 
 
 ?;rS Fo? Sect,^^ most prevalent form of un- 
 
 Stiel^'hat'^f^hen.,^^^^^^^^ 
 
 day after Sunday «"«°t o.^""^';'?^ ;„ the r^ponses of the 
 Gospel faithfully preached, and jo m '° «e r^^P°f q^ ^„d 
 
 n^rXe^rteraithbywhic^^^^^^^^ 
 
 mere abstract '^«°. "^ *X°:ff -^^ot w"^^^^^ '>«"!' " """» 
 
 ^^ieveruXrigb^r^S^---^^^^^^^^ 
 
 ar. ye »yed tWh &^'h ".ndX lest any man should 
 V T..8' And this wMth« doctrine taught by the earl, 
 ^bir. Clemen .X was Bishop of Kome in the first 
 jjatners. A""!^'". ' „_-_« Wo are not justified by our- 
 "T'^^n^X bv our Sm^or knowledge, or piet, or 
 
 ""^TjZfwe hive done ta the holiness of our hearM ; but 
 works that we "lave aone 1 ^ ^ justified all men 
 
 by that faith by which «»* ^'•J^f^;^ gj. -"john's disciple, 
 from the beg«""°f •, ^f eav^' Ye are saved by grace. 
 '''iTworks'^bit Tthe wm of God, througrjesus 
 PV* il7" Turi now to your Prayer Books, and you w. 1 
 Sdtat the imlrti^of the cLroh is founded on th« 
 doctrine as follows :— 
 
 .. We are »o«.»nt.d ^8? '•<'"„!°^^" ^ttrldUtfoH^ 
 
faith only is a moBt wholesome doctrine', and rerj full of comfort^ 
 M more largely is expressed in the Homily of Justification." 
 
 And in the Post Communion Strvice you will find thtse 
 words : — 
 
 *' Humbly beseeching Thee to grant, that by the merits and 
 death of Thy Son Jesus Christ, and through faith in his blood, W9 
 and all Thy whole Church may obtain remission of our sins," Ac. 
 
 " Without faith it ii impowible to pleaae God." In ©Te- 
 ry Bt«p of our ipiritual progresa, according to our faith so 
 is it done with us. Jesus said unto the Canaanitt<ih woman, 
 "0, woman, great is thy faith ; be it unto thee even as 
 thou wilt." Again, we read, '* He that believeth not is 
 condemned already, and the wrath of God abideth on bim, 
 l)ecause he hath not believed on the only begotten Son of 
 God." And " He that believeth not shall be damned." — 
 *• And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe mo?" — 
 Hear the ^ords of Christ in the 24th verse of the chapter 
 from whence the text is taken: — ** For if ye believe not 
 that I am he, y^ shall die in your sins." Faith deritres all 
 its efficacy and power from the command of God. *' Faith 
 works by love, and purifies the heart." We are not justi- 
 fied on account of our own works or deservings, but on ac- 
 eount of the merit of Christ ; and this benefit is communi- 
 cated to us through the instrumentality of faith. Tru« 
 faith implies, that we da and suffer all the will of God : it 
 implies a cheerful and holy obedience to the commands of 
 God. Good works are the fruits of faith ; hence the Apos- 
 tle St. James says — " Faith without works is dead ;" and 
 the Apostle St. Paul, in his epistle to the Ephesians, says — 
 *♦ For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus un- 
 
 to good works, which 
 should walk in them :' 
 
 God hath before ordained that wt 
 And again, in his epistle to Timo- 
 thy — '* These things I will that thou affirm constantly-— 
 that they who have believeth be careful to maintain good 
 works." 
 
 Brethren, have you so believed as to obey the truth ? For 
 Christ says, *'If ye love me keep my commandments." 
 To believe, then, is simply to take God at his wordj which 
 declares that man is impure, unholy, guilty, and far from 
 
d sins * but that 
 
 I r^ll know tha "T'trnth why do je not Mii«- ^^ 
 
 *!lVnd if \-f,^rt?uts' aV«n-P-'ty the oro^BS and 
 
 \Dgel8 desire to loo^ -j^^^er tbat -ep« -^y. 'fh© 
 
 eaiDts and f ^^'" 'etuaUy-" . . ^eliovo tlieso trutha? 
 
 ^Ti examine n P^^f xv,«i- vou do not oeiio ^, 
 
 ""'Why is it fta- 'evifhearteof nnbeUof^ 
 
 tt Is bioause of you- «" ^ mm to 6»"' "' 'j^ay ptose 
 
 ^' Jf Wlievefow let us beseec ^^ *'"fL"est of out 
 
 tance, andH'8 Holy Sp " • ^ , and that th<.re ^^^^ 
 
 Hi->'t;;a;b pu'e>nd hoJJ '^^^ ^j'^l^Chvist 0«. 
 life hereafter may t^^^^i joy ; througn 
 
 wa may co«« ''=' " 
 ijord." 
 
sins ; but tbat 
 r/avedi-Mrr 
 
 ^ "S 
 
 throne of grace 
 dly have access 
 ed a Pruice and 
 M remiBsion ol 
 them that truly 
 ospol." "T^^^«^ 
 
 , indeed : And ye 
 make you free. 
 ,t believe me .' — 
 ^ant? They were 
 
 by the cross and 
 } tL glorio^B re- 
 
 God, and by tti« 
 
 in the years of heat 
 ,eUovo these trutba? 
 
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 a that the rest of our 
 
 so that at the last 
 ingh Jesus Christ OUT 
 
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