upon us." He now also desires to serve and obey God : it is his grief and burthen that he cannot get rid of sin ; he longs for holiness ; he desires to be changed into the Divine image ; he wishes to be in heaven, not merely because he shall there be free from trouble, but because he shall be free from sin. And now, too, he is a living witness for the truth of God : he " sets to his seal that God is true :" he is not afraid to testify before the whole world, that God's service is perfect freedom, and that " in keeping his commandments there is great re- ward :" his whole life proclaims to those around him, that God is a mighty God, and greatly to be feared ; yet that he is also a loving, merciful, and faithful God, and therefore worthy to be loved and trusted with the whole heart. You have heard also that woe and destruction are denounced against the un- converted ; but there is no woe, no destruction, to the con- verted soul : no ; " his sins are put away from him, as far as the east is from the west :" while the iniquities of the ungodly are (as we are told) " sealed up in a bag," to be brought forth against them in the day of judgment, the iniquities that have been committed by a converted soul, are, from the first mo- ment of his conversion, " cast into the depths of the seag ;" not into the shallows, from whence they might be recovered, but into the depths, never more to be brought to remembrance. Whoever then ye be, who have embraced the Gospel, rejoice, and leap for joy, on account of the blessed change that you have experienced. If your consciences testify, that you are really seeking after God, that you desire to be delivered from all sin, and that you are endeavouring to be witnesses for God in the world, rejoice ; " for it becometh well your souls to be thankful." You have been redeemed; rejoice therefore in the redemption vouchsafed unto you : " you are bought with a price ; therefore glorify God with your bodies and your spirits, which are God's."]
s Mic. vii. 19.