learned to walk as he walked." " Love is the very fulfilling of the law ! " and this love of Christ to us is the true pattern for our love to each other''. This is what becomes us "as the elect of God "^ :" and this will be the test of our obedience in the day of judgment''. " Let the same mind then be in you,
as was in Christ Jesus'^" And let this be the habitual
exercise of it as far as your circumstances will admit'^ ]
^ Eph. V. 2. c Col. ill. 12—14. ^ Matt. xxv. 34—36.
e Phil. ii. 5.
*" If this be the subject of a Charity Sermon, this will be the place for opening the peculiar nature of the charity.
Isai. xxv. 6 — 8. In this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat thi^igs, a feast of ivines on the lees : of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees tvell refined. And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations. He will sivallow up death in victory ; and the Lord God will ivipe aivay tears from off all faces ; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth : for the Lord hath spioken it.
MANY passages of Scripture, which, from the lan- guage, might be supposed to belong to the Jewish dispensation only, will be found to refer in a more especial manner to the times of the Gospel. The " mountain" so frequently mentioned in this place was Mount Zion, which was distinguished above all other mountains by being the peculiar residence of the Deity : and it should seem that all the great things which God promised to the world, were to be trans- acted upon that spot. But Mount Zion was a type of the Gospel Church, wherein God yet more emi- nently dwells : and it is in the Church of Christ that he bestows the blessings which are here promised. The Gospel, which is here promulgated, affords,
I. Food to the hungry —
The Gospel calls us to a luxurious feast —
[The terms in which this feast is expressed, are evidently intended to raise in our minds the highest possible conceptions of its excellency. "A feast " is far more than a common meal,