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"Let us, in the first place,
then, make that Gospel, which the apostle states that he had preached to
the Corinthians, the subject of consideration. "I declare unto
you the Gospel," says he, "which I have preached unto
you."
The Saxon word "Gospel",
like the Greek word of which it is a literal translation, signifies agreeable
intelligence, a joyful announcement, good news, glad tidings; and is, in
the New Testament, ordinarily employed as a descriptive designation of
the revelation of Divine mercy to our lost world,
- the divinely-inspired account of the only way in which guilty, depraved,
and miserable men may be delivered from sin and its consequences, obtain
the Divine approbation and favour, be raised to the true dignity and excellence
of their intellectual and moral nature, in the knowledge of God, and conformity
to his mind and will, and be made happy in all the variety, and to the
full extent, of their capacities of enjoyment, and during the whole eternity
of their being, by the free grace of God, and "through the redemption
that is in Christ Jesus."
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