his success in this enterprise is more especially ascribecP. And what can we desire more than a promise of God's presence and co-operation? " If he be for us, who can be against us?" God has said, " Fear not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed^ for I am thy God : I will strengthen thee, yea, / tvill help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteous- ness :" though therefore our enemies come forth like Goliath, and we be only like David with a sling and a stone, we need not fear the issue of the contest; for " we shall be more than conquerors through Him that loved us" ]
4. To take the glory of nothing which God does
by us —
[God is a jealous God : and the ground of his reducing Gideon's army to three hundred men was, lest, if their numbers bore ever so small a proportion to the number of their enemies, they should ascribe to themselves the honour of the victory, instead of giving all the glory of it to God. In like manner has God treasured up for us a fulness of all blessings in Christ Jesus, and required us to live by faith upon him, and to receive out of his fulness our daily supplies of grace and strength. He would have us to glory in Christ alone, and to possess now the very spirit which we shall have in heaven, when with all the glorified saints we shall cast our crowns at his feet, and ascribe salvation to God and to the Lamb for ever and ever ]
k Heb. xi. 32, 33.