[Let your meditations of him be more sweet and frequent. However much you know of him, there are unsearchable depths unfathomed. Let your determination therefore accord with that of David a — . View him as appointing your trials, and dispensing your mercies. Consider him as the fountain from whence you are to have supplies of grace. Look to him as the example which you are continually to follow. Above all, rely on him as expiating your guilt, and interceding for you. Thus will you glory in him as your " friend and your beloved;" and at last will see him as he is, and be like him for ever.]
a Ps. xxvii. 4.
Zech. x. 12. / will strengthen them, in the Lord; and they shall walk up and down in His name, saith the Lord.
IF we were to judge of Christianity from what we behold around us, we should give it a preference, perhaps, to all other religions ; but we should be far from thinking very highly of its nature and effects. The generality of those who profess it, are but little elevated above the better orders of the heathen world ; and, in some respects perhaps, have a lower standard of morals than they. If it were asked of the great mass of nominal Christians, What has Christianity done for you ? in what respect are you either a better or a happier man, than you would have been if Christ had never come into the world ? it would be difficult for them to give any satisfactory answer, consistent with truth. Even those who do feel somewhat of its influence are far from manifesting its full power. In order to judge of its real excellence, we must go back to former days, and see how it wrought in the apostolic age ; or must look forward to that glorious period, when it shall prevail over the face of the globe, and exercise a more complete sway over the hearts of men. It is to this period that my text refers ; a period, when, in comparison of the present, " the light of the moon