help them, and deliver them : he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him1."]
3. Fidelity —
[Believing in God, we have nothing to fear, and nothing even to think of, but how we may best serve and honour him. St. Paul, when in daily expectation of a cruel death, said, " None of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto me, so that I may but finish my course with joy, and fulfil the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus"1." And I would ask, of all who believe the declarations in my text, Should not such " love constrain you to live unto your God"?" Realize the determination which he formed from all eternity, and from which not all the wickedness of our ruined world has ever been able to divert him, to save our souls from death by the sacrifice of his only dear Son in our stead. Realize the merciful interposition of the Lord Jesus Christ between us and the wrath of our offended God, and his actually becoming a curse for us. Realize his dying in our place and stead, and by his own obedience unto death effecting a reconciliation for us, and purchasing for us all the glory of heaven. Realize, I say, the deliverances shadowed forth by those vouchsafed to Jeru- salem, and spiritually fulfilled in you ; and what, think you, will be your feelings on the occasion, or your expression of them ? Will there be any bounds to your love, any limits to your obedience, any intermission to your songs of praise? No: you will be " ready either to be bound or to die for His sake," who has " so loved you, and given himself for you:" and " you will be satisfied with no attainment, till you shall awake up after the likeness of his perfect righteousness0."]
1 Ps. xxxvii. 39, 40. m Acts xx. 24.
" 2 Cor. v. 14. o ps< xvii. 15,