dare speak them to you, for God has spoken to you. These promises
God made you at your baptism; these promises I, on the warrant of
your baptism, dare make to you again. At your baptism, God gave you
the right to call Him your loving Father, to call His Son your
Saviour, His Spirit your Sanctifier. And He is not a man, that He
should lie; nor the son of man, that He should repent! Try Him, and
see whether He will not fulfil His word. Claim His promise, and
though you have fallen lower than the brutes, He will make men and
women of you. He will be faithful and just to forgive you your
sins, and to cleanse you from all unrighteousness.



SERMON VII. RETRIBUTION



NUMBERS, xxxii. 23.

"Be sure your sin will find you out."

The full meaning of this text is, that every sin which a man commits
is certain, sooner or later, to come home to him with fearful
interest.

Moses gave this warning to two tribes of the Israelites,--to the
Reubenites and Gadites, who had promised to go over Jordan, and help
their countrymen in war against the heathen, on condition of being
allowed to return and settle on the east bank of Jordan, where they
then were; but if they broke their promise, and returned before the