out. Whoever comes, on whatsoever
terms, in whatsoever condition, I will in no case cast you out. Do not
suppose cases to exclude yourselves. I know no case. Ye who cannot be
justified by the law of Moses, come unto me, and ye shall be justified
"from all things from which ye could not be justified by the law of
Moses." Ye who have no righteousness of your own, and see the
righteousness of God revealed with wrath against you, now come to me, I
have a righteousness of God, beside the law, and will reveal it to you. Ye
have a band of enmity, and handwriting of ordinances against you, but come
unto me, for I have cancelled it in the cross, and slain the enmity, so it
shall never do you any harm. In a word, this is the messenger whose feet
are beautiful, that publishes glad tidings of peace. This is the Mediator,
who reconciles us unto God. The whole gospel and covenant of grace is a
bundle of precious promises. It is a set of pleasant melodious songs, that
may accompany us through our wearisome pilgrimage, and refresh us till we
come unto the city, where we shall all sing the song of the Lamb. What a
song is liberty to captives and prisoners, light to them that sit in
darkness, opening of the eyes to the blind, gladness of spirit to those
who are heavy in spirit! Ye would all think salvation and remission of
sins a sweet song. But if ye would discern it, ye would find nothing
sweeter in the gospel than this redemption from all iniquity, from sin
itself, and from all kind of misery. How lovely and pleasant a thing is
that! When Christ hath piped unto you the remission of all sins in his own
blood, then he plays the most sweet spring, the renunciation of sin, and
dying to this world, by his death and resurrection. Many listen to the
song of justification, but they will not abide to hear out all the song.
He is our sanctification and redemption, as well as our righteousness.
Always to whomsoever he is pleasant, when he puts his yoke upon them, he
will be more pleasant in bearing it. Whosoever gladly hears Jesus singing
of righteousness and holiness, they shall also hear him sing of glory and
happiness. Those who dance at the springs of righteousness and
sanctification, what an eternal triumph and exultation waits on them, when
he is singing the song of complete redemption!

Are these things so? Is this the law, and this the gospel? Do they daily
sound in our ears, and what entertainment, I pray you, do they get from
this gene