Welsh Journals

No. 3. MAECH, 1864. Peice 2d. % Scnmm of lews ^kuquxib. [The name, Jones, Llangan, is well known to our Welsh readers, and is held sacred by them; but to many of our English friends it is totally strange. Possibly, more¬ over, the name alone is known to many of our Welsh friends, so that we feel glad that we have the privilege of presenting them with one of his Sermons—one, which, we think, must have been a favourite of his, according to notes inscribed on the last page of the MS. He preached it at Langan, Neath, Bath, Caerphilly, Pyle, Newport, Waenifor, Carmarthen, St. Nicholas, Princess Street Chapel, Moorfields, Treflus, near Penymorfa, and Bristol, on occasions ranging from July, 1785, to July 1788. We make no further remarks at present, as we purpose writing, at an early date, short papers on several of our Old Welsh Worthies, amongst whom Jones, Langan, occupies a prominent place.—Ed.] " Nevertheless I live, yet not 2", but Christ liveth in me."—Gal. It. 20. TFN this epistle, Paul proves, that a man is justified by faith in Jfe Christ alone, and not by the words of the law, ii. 16. But if a man be not justified by the works of the law, then a man may live as he lists, may cease from working. Not so, says Paul, for so we ourselves should be found sinners, <fcc, ii. 17,18,19. But if a man be justified by faith alone, and so by the death of Christ, then a man is crucified with Christ; and if you be crucified with Christ, how then do you live ? I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. I live—that is, a spiritual life. There is a natural life, and there is a spiritual life. I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live to God. From whence we may observe these two things.^ First, that every true believer, is a living man—lives a spiritual life. Secondly, that our justification by faith alone, is no enemy, but a friend to this spiritual life. Nevertheless I live.