gospel is an offer of free, full, and everlasting salvation to sinners. 2. The gospel is received in vain when it is received—(1) Partially. If you regard it as a system of doctrine only, or as a system of duty only, you only receive one-half of it, and the one cannot live without the other. (2) Speculatively. I mean in distinction from experience and practice; for such a reception does not accord with the nature and design of it. (3) Unperseveringly. “He only that endureth unto the end shall be