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 THE ROWERS COLLECTION 
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 SINNER AND THE SAVIOUR. 
 
 In a short time, and perhaps very unexpectedly, you will 
 be in eternity. Your opportunities and privileges fly with 
 your moments, your account is fast tilling up for the day of 
 judgment, and soon your everlasting destiny will be decided. 
 
 You are conscious that you are a sinner against God. You 
 have been /, in rendering no proper return for his 
 
 unceasing mercies ; selfish, in disregarding his glory, and seek- 
 ing your own interests; selfttoilled and obstinate, in casting off 
 his restraints, and persisting in way; proud, in over- 
 
 valuing your supposed good qualities; vain, in seeking the 
 approbation of men rather than God; rebellious, in resisting 
 his rightful authority, and disobeying his most reasonable 
 commands ; unbelieving, in neglecting his most gracious prom- 
 ises and solemn warnings ; and wieked, in stifling the admo- 
 nitions of conscience, and deferring known and acknowledged 
 duty. You have sinned against God the Father, by withhold- 
 ing your heart from him, and by contemning his wisdom and 
 mercy, which devised the gospel as the only method of re- 
 storing you to his favor; you have sinned against God the 
 Son, by denying your sinful and lost condition, and neglecting 
 the pardon purchased with his blood : you have sinned against 
 God the Holy Spirit, in resisting him when he has brought 
 reclaiming influences to bear on your soul. Acts 7 : 51. Bad 
 you never committed a sin against your fellow-men, your ever- 
 lasting condemnation would be just; but the guilt of a self- 
 murderer is also upon you, you have destroyed your own soul. 
 Hos. 13 : ; and you have encouraged others in sin, which 
 may finally insure their ruin. 
 
 It can be no excuse of your course to say you have been 
 sincere : sincerity is not the test of rectitude : " There is a way 
 that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the 
 ways of death/' Prov. 14: 12. You cannot plead that con- 
 science has not condemned you ; for by constant sinning you 
 
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 may have perverted and hardened it. You cannot hope that 
 God will be indifferent to your sin; he is "jealous" for his 
 law, and by his word and providence has declared his oppo- 
 sition in terms that should make every transgressor tremble. 
 If you rely on a vague expectation of the general mercy of 
 God, your hope must perish ; he has no mercy independent 
 of that which he exercises through Jesus Christ, to those who 
 repent and believe the gospel. If you turn to the promise of 
 future repentance, it must prove delusive; for if now, under 
 clear conviction and the most pressing motives, while the heart 
 is susceptible, you are unwilling to repent, much more will 
 you be when, by practice in sin, convictions are stifled, mo- 
 tives impaired, and the heart has grown hard. If you trust 
 to your morality, its outward and partial duties cannot answer 
 the demands of a law which is " exceeding broad " and spir- 
 itual ; nor can present o&rapj^ice, even if it were perfect, atone 
 for sins that are past. Ifyou expect that at death some 
 change will be produced in- your moral character, by which 
 you may be saved, you are fearfully deceived: he that is then 
 unjust, shall be unjust still ; and he that is filthy, shall be 
 filthy still. Kev. 22: 11. 
 
 You are then condemned, nor can you derive from your- 
 self or your fellow-men the least hope of deliverance. Ifyou 
 are ever saved, it must be by the unmerited mercy of God, so 
 exercised that his justice, holiness, and truth shall remain un* 
 impeached, the anthority of his law be maintained and a tho- 
 rough and radical change produced in your moral character. 
 
 Such a plan of salvation the wisdom of God has devised. 
 And from the cross of Jesus Christ the invitation is directed 
 to you, " Look unto me, and be saved." 
 
 lie is a Saviour in every respect suited to your ease. He has 
 removed all legal obstacles to your pardon, and yet upheld 
 and magnified the law. He has glorified the attributes of 
 God, and yet can offer mercy most freely to all who will re- 
 ceive it. He has every qualification to invite your confi- 
 dence and enlist your affection. " It pleased the Father that 
 in him should all fulness dwell." 
 
 He is full of merit to justify. However numerous and ag- 
 gravated your sins, on the ground of his ''everlasting right- 
 eousness" you may be pardoned and restored. 
 
He is full of grace to sanctify. :i The blood of Jesus Christ 
 his f^on cleanseth us from all sin. " 1 Jol^n, 1 : 7. 
 and his word can make you clean. 1 Pet. 1 : 22. Wai< i 
 to make yourself better, and then come to Christ with your 
 imperfect goodness as the price of acceptance; come as you 
 are ; he will make you better, and render you acceptable in 
 your Father's sight 
 
 He is full of compassion. He came to save sinners, and says 
 "Him that cometh tome I will in nowise cast out.''' Johnti: 
 
 He is full of sympathy; fcfe knows experimentally the wants, 
 woes, trials, and temptations of men ; and his call is, " Coi 
 unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will trivc 
 you rest." Matt. 11 : 28, 
 
 " All power in heaven and in earth " is given him, to pro- 
 tect and uphold his people. Matt. 28 : 18. If you are fearful 
 that you cannot hold out, he can keep you. John 10: 27-29. 
 "He is able to save them to the uttermost, who come unto 
 God by him." Ileb. 7 : 25. 
 
 He is full of wisdom. The past, the present, the future are 
 open to his eye. He will keep you from the paths of the de- 
 stroyer, and guide your doubting footsteps into the ways of 
 safety and peace. 
 
 He is full of glory to croym. lie will recognize vou as his 
 own in this world, wili guard you from the snares of prosperi- 
 ty, will irradiate the dark hours of adversity with his presence, 
 wiil convert your last conflict into a scene of victorv, and r:i 
 you to his Father's house, to reign as king and priest with him 
 for ever. Rev. 1 : 6. 
 
 He will be made wisdom tor your FgnorAnae, riirhteou^ 
 lor your guilt, sanctification lor your pollution, and redemp- 
 tion for your ruin. Will you accept him as vour Saviour? 
 Then make and seal, with your heart and hand, such an en- 
 gagement as the following : 
 
 ."In view of my sins, most unreasonable and wicked, 
 committed against God the Father, the Son, and the Holy 
 Spirit, I profess my sincere sorrow, and my linn determina- 
 tion to forsake them heartily and for ever. ' I now receive the 
 Lord Jesus Christ as my Saviour. Disclaiming all reliance 
 on my good deeds, I trust aione to his atonement for pardon. 
 Conscious of my ignorance, I receive him as mv instructor, 
 and bind myself to follow him ; and acknowledging and re- 
 
Bouncing my past rebellion, I receive him as my Master and 
 Lord, submitting my will cheerfully to his and consecrating 
 myself and all to his service for ever." 
 
 Make such a consecration as this from the heart, and you 
 shall live. The Redeemer will accept of no service short of 
 this. Why will you die ? Ever will you wander in darkness 
 till you turn your steps to Christ. Many have resorted to him 
 and been saved. Hear the experience of one. Oowper, the 
 celebrated Christian poet, at one period of his hrstory, was 
 driven by a consciousness of guilt to the verge of despair; at 
 length he opened tfie Bible and read, "Christ Jesus God hath 
 set forth to be a propitiation for sin, through faith in his blood, 
 to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are 
 past, through the forbearance of God. ;; Rom. 3 : 25. "Im- 
 mediately/' he says, " I received strength to'believe, and the 
 full beams of the Sun of righteousness shone upon me. I saw 
 the sufficiency ot the atonement he had made for my pardon 
 and complete justification, Unless the almighty arm had been 
 ander me, I think T should have been overwhelmed with grati- 
 tude and joy. My eyes tilled with tears, and my voice choked 
 with transport ; I could only look up to heaven in silent fear, 
 overwhelmed with love and wonder. I lost no opportunity 
 of repairing to the throne of grace, but flew to it with an earn- 
 estness irresistible and never to be satisfied, ©ould J help it ?. 
 The Lord had enlarged my heart, and I could now cheerfully 
 run in the ways of his commandments." It was in such a 
 state of mind that he composed this sweet hymn ; amd may- 
 God give you grace to adopt it as the language of your own 
 heart. 
 
 Kiere is a fountain tilled with blood Till all the ransomed ^mirci 
 
 Drawn from lmmanuel's veins ; Be saved to sin no d 
 And sinners, plunged beneatli'th&t 
 
 lioud. E'er since by faith I saw the. stream 
 
 Lose all their guilty .stains. Thy flowing wounds supply, ' 
 
 Redeeminglove has been my theme 
 The - see And shall be till I die. 
 
 That fountain in his •' 
 And there tun . Then in anobler, swe 
 
 Wash all my guilt away. I'll sing thy power to save. 
 
 When this poor lisping, stani'ring 
 Dear dying Lamb, thv tongue 
 
 blood " Lies silent in the grs 
 
 Shall never lose its power, 
 
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