tent sinners, we are granted the privi-
leges of God's children : and as redeemed
sinners, we shall hereafter join in giving
glory to him who has loved us, and
washed us from our sins in his own
blood."



SERMON X.
PREACHED NOVEMBER 16, 1828.
GALATIANS, V. 6.
Faith which worketh by love.
In pursuing the consideration of our
Liturgy, the object which now presents
itself to your contemplation is, the Con-
fession of faith, or Creed, by our belief
in which we are entitled to hold a place
in the congregation of Christ's church ;
and to which we all have testified our as-
sent by our position, if not by our
voices.
It is a valuable compendium of the
doctrines of Christianity, which asserts,
without attempting to explain them ; and
here let me, in the first place, observe,
that, while in the utterance of confession,
our belief in the depravity of human na-



tiire renders our expressions general ;
(" We have erred and strayed ;" we have
done those things which we ought not to
have done," and so on) — in the decla-
ration of our faith, each speaks only for
himself. We cannot know or answer for
the creed of another ; but each stands up
to declare before God and man, " J be-
lieve" the solemn truths which follow.
