his Holy Spirit, and, through his divine agency, impart to you that " knowledge of Christ in which alone consists eternal lifee."]
2. What effect has your knowledge of Christ pro- duced upon you?
[From my text we may learn, that, in proportion as we see Christ " eye to eye," we may hope, both in our individual and collective capacity, to be restored to God. And to the same effect says St. Paul; " We all, with open and unveiled face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lordf." Now what know you, Brethren, of this expe- rience? It is not the Law, with its terrors, that can ever effect this : no, nor can a desire of heaven give us a sufficient stimulus, or obtain for us so rich a benefit. Nothing but a sight of Christ can transform the soul into his likeness. Even in heaven this assimilating efficacy is felt and acknowledged : for we there " shall be like him, because we shall see him as he isg." Study, then, I pray you, his glorious character : sur- vey him diligently, as he is revealed in the word : and cease not to contemplate the wonders of his love, till, " by compre- hending the breadth and length and depth and height of it," as far as such an incomprehensible subject can be known, " you be filled with all the fulness of GodV]
e John xvii. 3. ' 2 Cor. iii. 18.
s 1 John iii. 2. »» Eph. iii. 18, 19.