your love and zeal be duly tempered with reverence and godly fear. At the same time, take care that you do not become weary in well doing. Be on your guard that your love to the Saviour languish not, and that your endeavours to convert others to the knowledge of him be not relaxed. Try amongst your friends and neighbours to interest them in his salvation. Then extend your efforts to all, whether Jews or Gentiles : and " count not even life itself dear to you," if that you may but glorify him, and save the souls of your perishing fellow-creatures.]
Ps. ci. 2. I will lehave myself tuisely in a perfect ivay. 0 when wilt thou come unto me r* I will walk within my house ivitli a perfect heart.
EXTENSIVE influence is a most invaluable talent, which entails upon us an awful responsibility, and should therefore be improved with all possible care and diligence. The higher we are in the scale of society, the more our obligations to exert our- selves for God are increased. But, if wisdom direct not our measures, our most strenuous efforts will be in vain. David was well convinced of this truth ; and, having seen in his own experience a wise ad- mixture of mercy and of judgment in the dealings of God towards him, he determined, in his limited sphere of action, to imitate the conduct of the Governor of the Universe, and so to temper mercy with justice in the whole of his administration, that iniquity might be suppressed, and virtue cultivated, not in his own palace only, but throughout all his dominions. We might not unprofitably enter into an investigation of the principles which he laid down for the regulation of his conduct, and mark the spe- cific course of action which he determined to pursue towards his courtiers ; but we shall wave the consi- deration of those particulars, and notice rather the general principle which he adopted, and which is equally applicable to persons in every station of life; ** I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way ; I will walk within my house with a perfect heart."
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