ws the meaning of this to be, that, let a man be of what
nation he will, Jew or Gentile, if he amends his life, and walks
according to the Gospel, he shall be accepted with GOD.

But this is not the way that pleases them! They must bring into the
sermon, to no purpose at all! a vast heap of places of Scripture, which
the _Concordance_ will furnish them with, where the word _new_ is
mentioned.

And the Observation must be that "GOD is for _new_ things. GOD is
for _a_ new _creature. St. John_ xix, 41, _Now in the place when
he was crucified, there was a garden; and in the garden a new
sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. There they laid JESUS_.
And again _St. Mark_ xvi. 17. CHRIST tells his disciples that they
that are true believers, shall cast out devils, and speak _with_
new _tongues_. And likewise, the prophet teaches us, _Isaiah_
xlii. 10, _Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise to the
end of the earth_.

"Whence it is plain that CHRIST is not for _old_ things. He is not
for an _old sepulchre_. He is not for _old tongues_. He is not for
an _old song_. He is not for an _old creature_. CHRIST is for a
_new creature! Circumcision and Uncircumcision availeth nothing,
but a new creature_. And what do we read concerning SAMSON?
_Judges_ xv, 15. Is it not that he slew a thousand of the
Philistines with one _new_ jawbone? An _old_ one might have killed
its tens, its twenties, its hundreds! but it must be a _new_
jawbone that is able to kill a thousand! GOD is for the _new
creature_!

"But may not some say, 'Is GOD altogether for new things?' How
comes it about then, that the prophet says, _Isaiah_ i. 13, 14,
_Bring no more vain oblations! &c. Your new Moons, and your
appointed Feasts, my soul hateth!_ And again, what means that,
_Deuteronomy_ xxxii. 17, 19, _They sacrificed unto devils, and to
new gods, whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up....
And when the LORD saw it, He abhorred them!_ To which I answer,
that GOD indeed is not for _new moons_, nor for _new gods_; but,
excepting _moons_ and _gods_, He is for the _new creature_."

It is possible, Sir, that somebody besides yourself, may be so vain as to
read this _Letter_: and they may perhaps tell you, that there be no such
silly and useless people as I have described. And if there be, there be
not above two or three in a country