welfare which we would urge you to promote : and in this view all our claims upon you as debtors come with ten-fold weight. Alas ! we are greatly and shamefully in arrears ; but in proportion to our past neglect should be our future exertions : and, as we know not how little time may be allotted us for fulfilling our duties to them, " whatever our hand findeth to do, we should do it with our might."
*#* For the sake of those who may wish for a short compendious view of the subject, the following Skeleton is annexed.
Rom. xv. 26, 27.
CHRISTIANITY a religion of love— exemplified on the day of Pentecost, and here —
But this exercise of love was a debt : — " their debtors they are."
I. Our obligations to the Jews ;
II. The return we should make them. I. Our obligations to the Jews —
These Christians were Greeks, of a different nation from the Jews —
Yet were they debtors to the Jews ; as we also are,
1. To the Patriarchs —
[Abraham — for the covenant of grace — and for a display of faith —
Isaac and Jacob — for illustrating a life of faith — ]
2. To the Prophets—
{ , ,, , (a schoolmaster — mT r .i i M. Moral i i
[Moses — for the law < (a rule —
' 2. Ceremonial — Scape-goat — This,
as a complicated drawing, both receives light from the Gospel,
and reflects light on it —
All the prophets — for a chain of prophecy —
David — for records of his experience — Ladder — ]
3. To the Apostles —
[For so full an account of Christ — For their zeal, in risking life for us — For their example — of highest virtues — ] vol. xv. p p