Learn from hence,
\. What should be the frame of your minds to- wards the Lord Jesus Christ —
[Our hearts should be supremely set on him, and we should " count all things but loss for the knowledge of him." So ardent should our love to him be, that no floods of affliction or
" Prov, viii. 17. "^ John xiv, 21, 23.
y iJohn iv. 10, 19. and xv. UJ. ^ Jer, xxxiii. 3.
a Ps. cxix. 94. t. isai. Ixiv. 8, 9.
c Exod. xxviii. 9—12, 21, 29, 30. '' Heb. xiii. 5.
e Rom. viii. 35 — 39.
persecution should ever be able to drown it, nor all that the
world can give stand for a moment in competition with it
Examine yourselves, Brethren, and see whether it be really so? Can ye, in answer to the question put by our Lord to Peter, make the reply that Peter did, " Lord, thou knowest all things ; thou knowest that I love thee?" ]
2. What we should daily look for at his hands —
[Your security and happiness depend altogether upon his unchanging love. Were he to withdraw from underneath you his everlasting arms, you would instantly fall and perish. Entreat him then to " carry you in his bosom," and to " bear you still as upon eagles' wings." Plead with him in earnest prayer ; and let him not go until he bestow his blessing upon you. " You are not straitened in him : be not straitened in your own bowels :" and let all the fellowship which you enjoy with him here, be regarded by you as a pledge and earnest of still closer fellowship with him in the regions of eternal light and blessedness.]
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