THE SCRIPTURE-WAY OF SALVATION.
EPH. ii. 8.
Ye are saved through faith.
1. Nothing can be more intricate, complex,
and hard to be understood, than
religion as it has been often described. And this
is not only true concerning the religion of the
Heathens, even many of the wisest of them, but
concerning the religion of those also, who were,
in some sense, Christians: yea, and men of great
name in the Christian world, men who seemed to
be pillars thereof. Yet how easy to be understood,
how plain and simple a thing is the genuine
religion of Jesus Christ! Provided only, that
we take it in its native form, just as it is described
in the oracles of God. It is exactly suited
by the wise Creator and Governor of the
world, to the weak understanding, and narrow
capacity, of man in his present state. How observable
is this, both with regard to the end it
proposes, and the means to attain that end!
