Ezekiel 16:63 That thou mayst remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God. Preached on Sunday afternoon 7 June 1767   From the resemblance between the affecting description in this chapter and the believer:   1. in our natural state   2. in the freeness and richness of the Lord’s grace   3. in our perverse and ungrateful returns   1. Here is good news – the Lord leads those who are self-condemned to hope he may be pacified.   1.1 He can consistently with his glory for Christ has died.   1.2 He will – for this very reason Jesus is preached.   Good news:   (i) for convinced sinners   (ii) for backsliders – in heart and life   2. A sense of pardoning mercy, humbles and confounds – and stops the mouth.   2.1 as to boasting (Paul)   2.2 complaining (David – 2 Samuel 16)   2.3 despising others.  The want of this observable in the Pharisee (Galatians 6:1) [1]   Here you may try the spirit you are of.  Have you a hope, and are you sometimes questioning if it is right and good – if it is, 1. you are ashamed 2. you dare not repine 3. you cannot be lofty, self-willed and censorious. If you have some view of the beauty of this frame and are seeking it in another way – disappointment [...illegible] sinners be confounded. Endnotes:    [1] Galatians 6:1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Acknowledgements: Cowper & Newton Museum, Olney, MS 714(19), John Newton's Notebook No. 43