of his providence and in the communications of his
grace h ]
III. He will do so to all eternity —
[If we would know the full extent of that difference which he will put between his people and others, we must go up to
heaven, and taste all the glories of it and go down to
hell, and experience all its miseries Never till then
shall we be adequate judges of this momentous subject.]
Questions —
1. Do you believe this truth ?
[Many think that " God will not do good or evil," and that he will neither reward nor punish. Whether they be con- scious of such infidelity or not, their life too plainly proves its dominion over them Beware of such atheistical senti- ments ; and seek that, whatever becomes of others, ye may be monuments of his love and favour ]
2. Do you live under the influence of it ?
[Happy were it for us, if we could always bear hi mind this solemn truth ! How importunate would be our prayers, how
ardent our praises, how indefatigable our exertions !
Let us contemplate the separation which God will make in the day of judgment1 ; and labour incessantly, that we maybe numbered amongst his most favoured saints k ]
to a deliverance from it. Ps. xxxi. 20. ( The full import of that verse will, when discovered, richly repay our meditations upon it.)
h Whence is it that the Lord's people are enabled to triumph, as they do, over the world, the flesh, and the devil ? Is it not that they are strengthened by Christ, (Phil. iv. 13.) and that "his grace is sufficient for them ?"
> Mai. hi. 18. Matt. xxv. 33, 46. k Mai. hi. 16, 17.