think that, in exalting Jesus, we dishonour Jehovah : but let us shew them by our lives, that we render to Jehovah all the love, and honour, and service, that were ever rendered to him by his most eminent saints ; and that there is no principle whatever so operative and powerful as the love of our adorable Redeemer. Let us shew them, that communion with the Son has the same effect on us, that com- munion with the Father had on Moses; that it assimilates us unto God, and constrains all who be- hold us to acknowledge, that we have been with God. Their eyes are now upon us ; upon us espe- cially, who are endeavouring to convert them to the faith of Christ : let them therefore see in us the in- fluence of Christian principles : let them see that, whilst we speak of enjoying peace through the blood of our great Sacrifice, and of having the Holy Spirit as our Comforter and Sanctifier, we live as none others can live, exhibiting in our conduct the faith of Abraham, the meekness of Moses, the pa- tience of Job, the piety of David, and the fidelity of Daniel : in a word, let them see in us an assem- blage of all the brightest virtues of their most re- nowned progenitors. O ! would to God that there were in all of us such a heart ! Would to God that the Holy Spirit might be poured out upon us for this end, and work in us so effectually, that the very sight of us should be sufficient to carry conviction to their minds ; that so our Jewish brethren, beholding " the exceeding grace of God in us," might be con- strained to take hold of our skirt, and say, " We will go with you, for we perceive that God is with you of a truthf!"
f Zech. viii. 23,