The blessings mentioned in the text were not pro- cured for one nation only, but for "many" even for all, to the remotest ends of the earth. And as no nation is excluded, so neither is any individual in any nation. The fountain is opened for all ; and will cleanse from sin and uncleanness all who wash in it. As " Moses took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled all the people*" so now may every sinner in the universe have his heart and conscience sprinkled through faith in God's promises. None can say, ' I am too vile ; the blood of Christ can never cleanse from such guilt as mine :' nor can they say, * My lusts are so inveterate, that the Spirit of Christ can never purify my polluted heart ;" for, " if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sanc- tified, in any instance, to the purifying of the flesh, much more shall the blood of Christ, who, through the Eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot to God, purge, in every instance, our conscience from dead works to serve the living God."
x Heb. ix. 19.
Isai. Hi. 15. Kings shall shut their mouths at him : for that which had not been told them, shall they see ; and that which they had not heard, shall they consider.
MANY are advocates for the preaching of morality in preference to the unfolding of the mysteries of the Gospel, because they think that men will be more easily influenced by what they know and understand, than by any thing which surpasses their compre- hension. But to judge thus is to be wiser than God, who has commanded his Gospel to be preached to all nations, and has appointed it as the means of con- verting the world unto himself. The most wonderful effects have been produced by it, not only on the vulgar, who might be thought open to deception, but on persons of the most cultivated minds, and most