9 Charles Hislop, 1778 Chrift the Righteousness of his People ettering Faith in Him. REPRESENTED in feveral SERMONS, PREACHED at the MERCHANTS LECTURE A T PINNER's-HAL L. By RICHARD RAWLIN. Published at the Request of the Committee of the そ LONDON: Printed for R. HETT, at the Bible and Crown, TO THЕ GENTLEMEN, MERCHANTS, AND OTHERS, Who encourage and fupport the Lecture at Pinners-Hall. GENTLEMEN, F ROM the time that you called your faith me to be a helper of ture, that has been fo extensively useful, I hope I have had nothing more in my view, than to explain and recommend, in the best manner I can, the several great and important truths of the gospel, as they might offer themfelves in the courfe of that ministry, which I am fulfilling among you. And as some of my first thoughts led me to confider and state the doctrine of Juftification, I was the more encouraged to attempt this, as I knew of what dear importance this article of our faith was with you; and that a well-meant defign to place it in fuch a light, as might fecure the complete honour of our justification to the righteousness of Christ, and the free grace of God in and thro' him, could not fail of meeting with a favourable reception among you, whatever imperfections might attend the execution of it; nor have my expectations herein been disappointed. I DON'T I DON'T pretend to offer any thing new upon a fubject, that has fo often employed the pens of our best and ablest Divines fince the Reformation. My chief defign has been to give an eafy, methodical, and connected view of this capital article of our faith, in the feveral bearings and dependancies of one part of the fubject upon another; and I have with the more care and attention endeavoured this, as I appre→ hend the want of taking fuch a view of it has been, at least, one occafion of those unhappy mistakes, which some have fallen into about it, and of those many prejudices, which others have entertained against what seems to me to be the true fcripture-doctrine in this point: Taking the whole together in that light, in which I have endeavoured to place it, I hope it will appear a scheme worthy of God, and confiftent with itself; and that, whilft it makes A 3 the |