denial of them, nothing remains for us, but to learn from experience what we will not learn from reason or the word of God.]
Let me conclude with answering the question which is thus presumptuously proposed —
[Do you ask, " Who is Lord over us ? " I answer. The Lord Jesus Christ is : and " he has sworn, that unto him every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess'^." O that you would now submit yourselves imto him ! What would he not do for you ? What judgments would he not avert? What blessings would he not communicate ? Remember, I pray you, that " He is God, and none else^." Whatever you may ima- gine, you can never "prevail" against him. As for "yoiu* lips being your own ; " nothing that you have is yom' own. You are the work of his hands ; and he has a right to every power that you possess. Yea, more, " he has bought you with a price," even the inestimable price of his own blood : so that he has a double right over you : and you are bound, by every tie that can be conceived, to " glorify him with your bodies, and with your spirits, which are his'"." Take him, then, as your Lord ; and yield yourselves to him as his subjects : and then you may very safely ask, " Wliom have I to fear?" Be- loved Brethren, reject this Lord, and none can save you : give yourselves up to him, and " none can harm you"."]
k Isai. xlv. 23. ^ Isai. xlv. 22.
m 1 Cor. vi. 20. " 1 Pet. iii. 13.