Gospel delivered by them. Let us therefore arise to our long- neglected duty ; and " neither rest ourselves, nor give rest unto our God," till he call in his banished children, and make Jeru- salem once more a praise in the earth b.]
2. What are those points to which we must parti- cularly attend in our own conversion —
[The Jews are to " declare God's glory among the Gen- tiles," and to " offer them up as an holy offering unto the Lord." These are the two essential points of conversion ; and if either be wanting in us, we can never behold the face of God in peace. We must have light in our understandings, and holi- ness in our hearts. The first thing in the old creation was light ; and that also is the first in the new : " God, who created light out of darkness, must shine into our hearts, to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ0." This is not a mere speculative knowledge; but such a view of God's glory, as leads immediately to a willing surrender of our souls to him, "as a living sacrifice d." The two must go together, as the root and the fruit. They are absolutely inseparable. We never can devote ourselves unre- servedly to God, till we feel our obligations to him for all the wonders of redeeming love : but if once we have right views of Christ, " we shall immediately purify ourselves, even as he is puree." Let us then never be satisfied, till " Christ is fully revealed in our hearts1," and till we so " behold his glory as to be changed by it into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lordg."]
b Isai. lxii. 6, 7. c 2 Cor. iv. 6.
d Rom. xii. 1. 2 Cor. viii. 5. e 1 John hi. 3.
f Gal. i. 16. 52 Cor. iii. 18.