to neglect him : but, as to your final doom, you must perish under the aggravated guilt of rejecting and contemning your incarnate God. O that you may consider this, and " flee for refuge to the hope set before you ! "]
2. How blessed is the state of those who are in- terested in the Saviour !
[Guilty and helpless as you are in yourselves, you have no need to despond when you reflect on what has been done for your salvation. Supposing that you would be restored to the favour of God, what can you think of that " ought" to be done, either for God's honour or for your security, which has not already been done for you ? Would you have a Surety ? There is one. Would you have him to be God? He is so. Would you have him suffer all that you ought to suffer ? He has done so. Would you have him invested with glory that he may perfect in you the work which he has begun ? He is so. Inquire of God himself what ought to be done: search the Scriptures from one end to the other: see what the prophets spake : see what our Lord himself spake : and then try if you can find one thing omitted which has not been already accom- plished, or is not accomplishing at this moment. Rejoice, then, Believer, rejoice in the Lord alvvay, and again I say, rejoice. You may be at present suffering like our Lord, and may be ready to doubt whether you shall ever behold the face of your God in peace : but " the word of the Lord is tried," and " the Promises are sure to all the Seed." Soon you shall be with your exalted Lord, and, having suffered with him awhile, shall eternally be glorified together.]