blazon his worthy name, and to cause it to be remembered: many a fweet view of the name of Chrift have the Lord's people got in the difpenfation of the word, "it is Chrift whom we preach, and there the faints do "behold the beauty of the Lord."

3. Haunt the company of thofe that know his name, for they are very ready to tell it to others. The woman of Samaria, John iv. whenever the read the name of God in Chrift, fhe runs to her neighbours, and tells it to them, faying, "Come fee a man that has told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Chrift?" Many a poor foul has been brought to Chrift by hearing of his name among these that knew him. The daughters of Jerufalem they hear the spouse speaking of the glory and beauty of her beloved, which makes them, Cant. vi. 1. to fay, " Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? that we may feek him with thee."

4. With all these join earneft prayer to God, who has fet his name in Christ, that he may fhew this name, even his own glory, in the face of Jefus Chrift, unto you. Oh! plead the promife of the Spirit to teftify of Christ, to take the glory of Christ, and shew it unto you; for it is a particular office of the Spirit, as a "Spirit of wisdom and revelation, to open the blind eyes," and to cause the foul to read the name of the Father in the Son, and he has promised his Spirit to them that afk him.

Exod. xxiii. 21.-My name is in him.

THE FOURTH SERMON ON THIS TEXT.

SECONDLY, Another word of exhortation is to you that know his name, to truft in it: Pfal. ix. 10. " They that know thy name will put their truft in thee." How often are we exhorted in fcripture to truft in the name of the Lord? If.1. 10. "They that fear the Lord, and obey the voice of his fervant; let them truft in the name of the Lord, and stay themselves upon their God." Oh Sirs! is his Father's name in him? then truft him and give him credit. It is promised, that "in his name fhall the Gentiles truft; that the Gentiles shall come unto his light, and kings to the brightnefs of his rising; to him fhall the Gentiles feek, and his rest shall be glorious.'

Seeing God the Father has fet him forth unto you Gentiles in a gofpel-difpenfation, faying, My name is in him, Oh! trust in this name of the Lord, and ftay upon him as your God. This trufting in his name, it implies,

1. The knowledge of his name, for it is only they that know his name that will put their trust in him.

2. A perfuafion of his authority and commiffion as the fent of God: for he glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that faid unto him, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee." Chrift did not run before he was called: "I the Lord have called thee, I will hold thine hand, and will help thee." Now, faith receives Chrift upon his Father's credit, upon the record of God concerning him, as his great ordinance for falvation; and this is a part of his Father's name here intended.

3. It has in it a perfuafion of his power and ability to fave, because his Father's name is in him. "I have laid help upon one that is mighty : He is able to fave to the uttermost all that come unto God by him."

4. This trufting in his name, has in it a renouncing of all other refuges but the name of the Lord as in him. The foul, in trufting in his name, cries, "Afhur fhall not fave us, we will not ride upon horfes, neither will we fay any more to the works of our hands, Ye are our gods. In vain is falvation hoped for from the hills, or the multitude of mountains," &c.

5. It has in it an expectation of help and relief in this name: "Our help is in the name of the Lord," in the name of a God in Chrift, "who made the heavens and the earth.” When we trust a man of honesty and fidelity, we expect that he will not betray us, but that he will do to us according to his promise.

6. A perfuafion that he will do to the foul in particular according to his gracious word, and that for the fake of his name, faithfulness, and truth. Oh! fays the foul, this word of his, which is "yea and amen in him," is the ground of my sure hope, and in it I will be confident; for "he is not man that he fhould lie, or the fon of man that he fhould repent." Thus you fee what it is to truft in his name.

Queft. For what would you have us to truft in his name? Anfw. 1. Truft him with the government of the world in this dark and cloudy day, in which the nations are fhaking and staggering like a drunken man; for his Father has lodged the reins of the world's government in his hand; and if his Father has committed that truft to him, you have no reason to

fear,

fear, though heaven and earth were mingling; for all power in heaven and earth being in his hand, he will bring all to good

account.

2. Truft him with the government of his church, for "he rules in Jacob, he is King in Zion ;" by his Father's appointment, the government is upon his fhoulders. His Father has hung upon him all the glory of his houfe, as upon a "nail faftened in a fure place." The offspring and the iffue hang upon him; the veffels of the fmalleft quantity, even from the veffels of cups, to the veffels of flagons. The fervants of the houfe may mifplace the veffels, diforder the houfe; but no fear, he will bring all to rights in his own time and way; though before he do this he may come in fuch an awful manner as to make all the house to tremble; yet trust him, for "he is faithful in all his houfe;" he has founded it upon a rock, and the gates of hell fhall not prevail, fo as to destroy it.

3. Truft him with all your temporal cares and concerns. Perhaps you are ready to be filled with anxiety of mind in the prefent pofture of affairs, and to fay, Oh! what fhall come of me and mine, if the Lord fhall, for the fins of thefe lands, order the bloody fword that is raging abroad, to pass over and vifit us? Why, truft him even in that cafe: "For this man fhall be the peace when the Affyrian fhall come into our land.” This man fhall be "a hiding place from the ftorm, a covert from the tempeft, and as the fhadow of a great rock in a weary land." land." The name of God in him is "a strong tower; the righteous fly into it, and are fafe." Oh! Sirs, trust him for your provifion and protection, for he has faid his people fhall" dwell on high, the place of their defence shall be the munitions of rocks; your bread fhall be given you, and your water fhall be fure." Pfal. xxxvii. 3. "Truft in the Lord, and do good, fo fhalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed."

4. Fruft him for all your fpiritual and eternal concerns, for all that he is "made of God unto us; for he received gifts for men," and he will not betray his truft. More particularly,

ft, Truft him for wifdom and counfel in every difficult cafe; truft him for inftruction in the knowledge of the great myfteries of the kingdom, and fecrets of the covenant. "He opens the book, and looses the feven feals thereof." When you come into dark paths, where ye know not your way, trust him that he will lead the blind in the way they know not, for he is "given for a leader and a commander to the people."

2dly, Truft him for peace and reconciliation, and for accept

ance

ance to your perfon and services through his everlasting righ teousness; for " he hath brought in everlasting righteoufnefs, he has magnified the law, and made it honourable, and the Lord is well pleased for his righteouseness fake."

3dly, Truft him for a fupply of all your wants, fupplies of light, fupplies of life, fupplies of ftrength and grace; for "all we out of his fulness do receive grace for grace; and when the poor and needy feek water, and there is none, and when their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Jacob will not reject them."

4thly, Truft him for freedom from the temptations and fiery darts of the devil, for his Father's name is in him, which is the terror of hell, he has "fpoiled principalities and powers," and has faid, that " the God of peace fhall bruife Satan under your feet fhortly."

5thly, Truft him for a. fafe through-bearing at death, for "he was dead, and is alive, and lives for evermore, and hath the keys of hell and death;" and he has faid, "I will ranfom them from the power of the grave, I will redeem them from death."

Thus, I fay, feeing his Father's name is in him, let him be the object of your truft in every cafe. And to encourage your truft in him, confider,

1. That it is for this end that his Father's name is in him as Mediator, that he may be the object of your trust. Oh Sirs! God had been an eternal object of terror instead of truft, if he had not manifefted himself to us in Chrift as "the Lord God merciful and gracious," &c.

2. That it is the defign of the whole fcriptures, and of the whole of a gofpel-difpenfation, to bring finners to trust him, and faints to truft him better and more firmly: John xx. at the close, "These things are written, that ye might believe in the Son of God, and believing," or trufting, "ye might have life through his name."

3. It is the command of God that you truft in his name. It is not a thing optional, whether you do it or not as you please: no, you are concluded under the command of God to make him the object of your trust, even for your eternal salvation, 1 John ii 23. "This is his commandment, that ye believe in the name of the only begotten Son of God," &c. And remember that this commandment is fenced with an aw ful penalty, that if you do it not, you are "condemned already," &c.

4. Confider, that he himself, as well as his Father, requires your trust and confidence in his name: If. xlv. 22. "Look unto me," or truft in me, "all ye ends of the earth;" for my

Father's

Father's name is in me, "I am God, and there is none else." And Oh! when a finner trufts him, he is well pleafed, for "he taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy," &c.

5. Confider the advantage that shall accrue to you by trusting him that has his Father's name in him.

, Stability in a fhaking and trying day. When many on every hand of you are carried away with the wind of error, temptation, affliction, reproach, and perfecution; yet by trusting in this name, ye fhall be "as mount Zion, which cannot be removed for ever:" your faith and hope, like an "anchor fure and fted faft entering within the vail," will keep you firm in all ftorms that may blow, either from heaven, earth,

or hell.

2dly, Ye fhall have the advantage of much inward peace when the world is reeling about you: "He fhall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord." If. xxvi. 3. "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whofe mind. is ftayed on thee: because he trufteth in thee."

3dly, Not only peace, but joy, is the fruit of trufting in this name which is fet in Chrift: "I have trufted in thy mercy, I have rejoiced in thy falvation. In whom, though now we fee him not, yet believing, we rejoice with joy unfpeakable, and full of glory."

4thly, Ye fhall be kept alive in famine, if you truft in this name. Sirs, there is a famine of the word of the Lord in many corners of this land, many of the Lord's remnant put fore to it for want of their ordinary meals; fet a wandering for the bread of life through violent intrufions, and otherwife: Well, in this cafe look to, and trust in the name of a God in Christ, and ye fhall not want; he will lead you to the place where he causes his flocks to rest at noon. See a sweet promise to this purpose, Jer. xvii. 7. 8. Psal, xxxvii. 2.

EXOD. xxiii. 21.-My name is in him'

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THE FIFTH SERMON ON THIS TEXT.

Proceed now to the third word of exhortation from the text and doctrine. Is it fo that the name of God is in our glorious Redeemer Jefus Chrift? Oh then, Sirs, let us glory in his name, for "in, him fhall all the feed of Ifrael be justified, and shall glory," If. xlv. 25.

It is with a view to