through faith in the Sacrifice of Christ. a commission of peace, to rest in comfort through the assurance of the seal of pardon granted at the Christian sacrifice for sin, in the commemorating the body and the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, who has, by his precious blood, washed us from our pollutions, and will, if we seek his spiritual kingdom, present us before his Father spotless and without a blemish, to be numbered with his saints and angels; to be his children and not his slaves; to be of his household and not his servants; to be his brethren and not his removed relatives! O Christian people, who are under the easy yoke and light burthen of redemption, be wise unto salvation; for unto every one is given the means, by which to obtain life and mmortality, and to avoid sin and everlasting leath. ARGUMENT ΤΟ BOOK IV. The Misery of the Wicked-Meditation of CainConversation of Cain and Mehala-Marriage of Enoch-His Posterity-Cain erects the City of Enoch-Refractory Conduct of his Children-His Address to them-His ineffectual Efforts to reclaim them Their Character-Departure of Cain and Mehala. BOOK IV. IN sorrow let the perpetrators of wickedness mourn the foulness of their crimes; for from a compunction of soul is the penitent known: of this a tender and wounded conscience bears perpetual record; otherwise the convert, under bis disguise of sanctity, is at best but the wretched impostor of hypocrisy, the constant agent of sin, and the forerunner of death; unto whom is reserved blackness and darkness, during the innumerable ages of eternity. Let the secure take heed that he stands fast, and let the beguiling son of fraud know, that the mockery of his cunning is to none more dangerous and destructive than to his own wretched soul; which must for ever mourn the folly of a wicked and unthinking |