[Doubtless the work will often prove heavy and fatiguing. But God has promised " grace sufficient for us." And the more we labour, the greater our reward1. Yea, the very work itself is a source of much peace arid joyk, and wonderfully conduces to fit us both for this world and the next. Who will make so distinguished a preacher of Christ, or will so adorn his Christian profession, as he who is altogether dead to the world ? And who is so fit to join the saints above, as he who already emulates them in their love to God, and their delight in holy exercises ? Go on then, " forgetting what is behind, and reaching forth to that which is before1;" and soon you shall both " rest from your labours," and " enter into the joy of your Lord."]
; 1 Cor. iii. 8. k Isai. xxxii. 17. > Phil. iii. 13, 14.
Luke x. 10 — 16. Into whatsoever city ye enter ; and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say, Even the very dust of your city which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you : notwithstanding he ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city. Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida ! for if the mighty ivorks had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment, than for you. And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shall be thrust down to hell. He that heareth you heareth me ; and he that despiseth you despiseth me ; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
NOTWITHSTANDING all the care which our Lord took to prepare the minds of men for the reception of his Gospel, his success was very small, insomuch that after his resurrection and ascension to heaven, his disciples amounted to no more than five hundred. He foresaw it would be so ; and when sending forth his seventy disciples into all the places whither he himself was about to come, he guarded them against the offence which the contracted in- fluence of his word might occasion. He directed