Nor should we be content with doing this ourselves : we should invite the whole creation, as it were, to join us. We should labour to stimulate all to love and serve him ; and to make his name known to the very ends of the earth".
It is in this way that we should endeavour at least, as much as in us lies, to " render unto the Lord according to the benefits" he has conferred upon us.]
3. Walk humbly and carefully before him —
[We must not presume upon the kindness of our God, or imagine, that, because we have been upheld hitherto, we are in no danger of falling : if we had attained the stability of St. Paul himself, " we must keep our body under, and bring it into sub- jection, lest we become cast-aways ourselves ''." To neglect this, were to tempt God. God has warned us plainly, that " he will be with us no longer than we continue with him ; that if we for- sake him, he will forsake us^." We therefore must not be high- minded, but fear^; and take heed lest we fall''; and " watch and pray, that we enter not into temptation**." If we would have our God to keep us, we must be careful to " keep our- selves*^." We must look at the fearful examples that are before our eyes'^'^, and tremble lest we ourselves become similar monu- ments of instability, and of God's deserved wrath.]
4. Commit ourselves continually to him —
[God has engaged to " keep the feet of his saints^;" and
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P 1 Cor. iv. 7. '' 1 Cor. xv. 10. ■■ Hos. xiv. 8. Isai. xxvi. 12.
* 2 Cor. v. 5. ' Ps. Ixii. 8. & xxvi, 12.
" Isai. xii. 4 — 6. or xlii. 10 — 12. See also the text.
* 1 Cor. ix.27. y 2 Chron. xv. 2. ^ 1 Cor. x. 12.
* Rom. xi. 20. ^ Matt. xxvi. 41. " ver. 18. with Jude 20, 21. " Luke xvii. 32. Heb. iv. 11. "^ 1 Sam. ii. 9.