the wrath, which even now " abideth on them," " shall come upon them to the uttermost."]
Application —
[Let all inquire seriously whether they do indeed believe
Let those, who have not hitherto come to Christ as
lost and perishing sinners, guard against those workings of
self-righteousness which would keep them from him
And let " those who have believed be careful to maintain good works" ]
John iv. 10. Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink ; thou ivouldest have asked of him, and he ivould have given thee living water.
OUR blessed Saviour, though " Lord of all," was a man like unto us in all things, sin only excepted : he hungered, he thirsted, he was weary. He put forth his Almighty power to heal the maladies of others ; but would not exercise it for the exempting of himself from human infirmities. In journeying from Judaea to Galilee, he was overcome with weari- ness ; and was necessitated to ask, from a woman of Samaria, who was come to the well by which he was sitting, a draught of water to quench his thirst. I conceive that, from the beginning, his object in ad- dressing her was more to impart good to her, than to obtain relief to himself: for, instead of noticing, as he might well have done, her backwardness to comply with his request, he lost not a moment in revealing himself to her, as the Messiah, the Saviour of the world.
From his address to her, we shall take occasion to consider,
I. The characters under which our Lord here pre- sents himself to our view :
1. He first speaks of himself as " the great Gift of God" to mankind —