I will now conclude, with drawing your attention to,
1. The circumstances under which this counsel
was given —
[" On the self-same day " that his counsel was given, "was Moses to go up to Mount Abarim and die q." This, then, was the dying testimony of Moses. And I, if I were now on my dying-bed, would give to you precisely the same counsel, and entreat you all to " set your hearts to what I have this day testified amongst you." " Lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, my beloved Brethren, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes." And to every individual I would say, " Teach them unto your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou best down, and when thou risest up : and thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thine house, and upon thy gates r." Use all possible means of bringing these things to your remembrance s : but rest not satisfied, till they have wrought a thorough work upon your souls, and you are "cast into them as into a mould" that shall assimilate you altogether unto God's perfect image1.]
2. The circumstances which must infallibly ere
long result from them —
[Of this counsel both you and your adviser must shortly give account at the judgment-seat of Christ. In God's book of remembrance, every word is already recorded, together with the manner in which it has been both delivered and received.
J John xiv. 6. m Rom. x. 3. n Gen. iv. 3 — 5.
° Acts xiii. 39. p Heb.x.2G,27. « ver. 40—50.
r Deut. xi. 18 — 20. s Heb. ii. 1. l Rom. vi. 17. the Greek.