By the Light of Nature we may know something of God, as our Creator, Rector, and Sovereign, our Owner, and Law-giver, together with much of that Duty we owe to him, to our Neighbour, and to ourselves; but being conscious of Guilt, of our Unlikeness to God, and our Proneness to rebel against him, in this Light he can appear to us only as an angry Judge, as clothed with Infinite Power and Wrath, ready to fall upon us, and consume us in the Fire of his Indignation. It is the Gospel only that reveals him as on a Mercy-Seat, as extending a Scepter of Love, and as ready to receive us, on our Repentance and Return to him. Here we have in the Blood of a Saviour a Fountain open’d for Sin, and for Uncleanness.

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