“The everlasting gospel.”  Revelation 14:6.

The gospel is properly called “glad tidings,” for these reasons: We are polluted with the filth of sin; in it is opened a fountain for sin and uncleanness.  The way to heaven is blocked up by our sins; it reveals “a new and living way, through the flesh of Christ.”  We are imprisoned debtors by multiplied transgressions; it shows that a price, the most inestimable, has been paid to discharge us.  We have by nature hard, cold, and impenitent hearts; in it is promised a heart of flesh.  We can of ourselves do nothing; it shows that through Christ we can do all things.  We feel that we are liable to err and backslide; it declares that God will scourge us till we return to him, but not take his loving-kindness from us.  We know that we are liable to many calamities; it teaches us that they shall all work together for our good.  We see that we are dying creatures; by it we are assured that we have a Forerunner in heaven, and an eternal habitation with God in glory.  Lord, send abroad and bless this gospel.