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CRUMBS

FOR

THE LORD'S LITTLE ONES.

VOL. III.

66 FEED MY LAMBS."

John xxi. 15.

LONDON:

W. KENT & CO., PATERNOSTER ROW.

WM. YAPP, 4, OLD CAVENDISH STREET.

CRUMBS, &c.

THE PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY.

It is in the slain Lamb of God alone that the awakened soul finds peace; because that Sacrifice speaks of forgiveness of sins and eternal redemption, and manifests also the blessed truth, that that veil which separated between God and His people, is rent in twain from the top to the bottom, and has brought the mercy-seat into full view.

The finished work of Jesus is the perpetual consolation of God's elect. They find liberty in nothing else; and the liberty proclaimed in that "one Offering which was once offered" is full and complete. It is a freedom made by the Son of God Himself, and therefore connected with infinite and everlasting results; a freedom, originating in the will and pleasure of God according to His eternal counsel and purpose, flowing forth, when the fulness of time came, in the free gift of His only begotten Son; a freedom secured by the blood of the everlasting covenant, and given freely, without money and without price, to them that believe--even to as many as the Lord our God shall call. The work of Christ makes sure our freedom from the law of sin and death, and our liberty to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus; it bears witness to our deliverance from the power of darkness, and translation into, the

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