in the Day of Judgment, and
will cover you with double shame. The whole question for each of us
is, 'Do we believe unto righteousness?' Is righteousness what we
want? Is to be made good men what we want? If not, no confessing
with the mouth will be unto salvation, for how can a man be saved in
his sins? If an animal is diseased can it be saved from dying
without curing the disease? If a tree be decayed, can it be saved
from dying without curing the decay? If a man be bad and sinful,
can he be saved from eternal death without curing his badness and
sinfulness? How can a man be saved from his sins but by becoming
sinless? As well ask, Can a man be saved from his sins without
being saved from his sins? But if you wish really to be saved from
your sins, and taken out of them, and cured of them, that you may be
made good men, righteous men, useful men, just men, loving men,
Godlike men;--then trust in God for that, and you will find that
your trust will be unto righteousness, for you will become righteous
men; and confess God with your mouth for that, saying, 'I believe in
God my Father; I believe in Jesus Christ His Son, who died, and
rose, and ascended on high for me; I believe in God's Holy Spirit,
which is with me, to make me right;' and your confession will be
unto salvation, for you will be saved from your sins.

Always say to yourself this one thing, 'Good I will become, whatever
it cost me; and in God's goodness I trust to make me good, for I am
sure He wishes to see me good, more than I do myself; and you will
find that because you have confessed, in that best and most honest
of ways, that God is good, and have so given Him real glory, and
real honour, and real praise, He will save you from the sins which
torment you: and that because you have really trusted in Him, you
shall never come, either in this world, or the world to come, to
that worst misery, the being ashamed of yourself.

SERMON XIX. FORGIVENESS

Psalm li. 16, 17. Thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give
it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

The sacrifice of God is a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite
heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise.

You all heard just now the story of Nathan and David, and you must
have all felt how beautiful, and noble, and just it was; how it
declares that there is but one everlasting God's law of justice,
which is above all men, even the greatest; and that what is right
for the poor