that we can appeal to Jesus, the Searcher of hearts, and say, " Thou, wlxo kuowest all things, knowest that I love Thee," we need not be afraid.
(e) If we really and truly feel love to Christ, we may thank God and take courage. Of our own faith, and grace, and con- version, and sanctiticatiou, we are poor judges. But do we really and sincerely feel that we love Christ ? That is the great question. The very existence of such love is a good sign. We sliould not love Christ, if we had not got something from Him.
Brentius remarks that Peter's charge to the elders, in his epistle, clearly shows that our Lord's thrice-repeated charge, " Feed," was not meant for him only, as the Romanists say, but for all ministers of the Church of Christ, without exception. " The elders which are among you, I exhort ; — Feed the flock of God." (1 Peter v. 1.)