their appointed course; and you may labour both long and painfully in vain. But is therefore your condition hopeless? No: there is One who is both able and willing to save you, if only you call on him. He may appear to be far off: but he is near at hand, though you know him not; and the hour of your extremity shall be the time of his effectual interposition : yes, " He that shall come, will come, and will not tarry." But perhaps your difficulties appear insurmountable. They may be so to you ; but " with Him all things are possible :" at His command the winds and waves shall be still; and all your troubles shall vanish in an instant. Be assured, that what he did for his Disciples of old, he will do for you at this day ; and if only you commit your souls to him, you shall speedily be at the haven where you would be.]
2. Have any of you been delivered from trouble ? Give to the Lord Jesus all the glory —
[You see how vain your own labours are ; and that you may toil during your whole life in vain, if he come not to your aid. What could any of you have done to remove guilt from your consciences, or to mortify sin, and transform }fourselves into the Divine image? To all eternity you would have laboured in vain to effect any one of these things. But Jesus, by his all-atoning blood, has expiated your guilt ; and, by sprinkling that blood upon your consciences, has brought peace into your souls ; and, by his all-powerful grace, has enabled you to over- come your spiritual enemies, and to fulfil the will of God. And, if it were allowed to us to wonder, you might well be amazed at what, he has wrought for you. But in what he has done, he has only fulfilled his own office, and displayed his own proper character, as a Saviour. Give him, then, the glory of all that he has done ; and " be his witnesses " to an ungodly world, that '* he is able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God by him."]