•' Whether it be right to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge yef." So whatever menaces be used to intimidate us, and to deter us from the path of duty, we must say with St. Paul, "None of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto mes," so that I may but discharge the duty I owe unto my Lord, and approve myself to him as his faithful servant.
Further, we must follow him as our Saviour, to save us. There is no other Saviour, no other name under heaven given among men whereby we, or any human being, can be saved. It is he who has by the sacrifice of himself effected our reconciliation with our offended God: and he says, " Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth." " As the serpent was lifted up in the wilderness that the wounded Israelites might look unto it and be healed, so," says our Lord, " have I been lifted up, that whosoever shall believe in me may not perish, but may have eternal lifeh." But our eyes must be to him alone. We must not blend any thing with his all-sufficient merits. We must not look partly to ourselves and partly to him; for he will not endure any rival, or "give any part of his glory to another." If St. Paul " desired to be found in Christ, not having his own righteousness but the righteousness which is of God by faith in Christ1," much more must we renounce all depend- ence on our own works, and seek to be justified by Christ alone. As in heaven there is but one song, " To him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and made us kings and priests unto God and the Father, to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever;k" so on earth must there be an entire and exclusive alliance in him for all the blessings of salvation.
Once more, we must follow him as our Example, to regulate the whole of our life and conversation. When he washed his Disciples' feet, he declared, that he intended in this symbolical act to shew, how they were to demean themselves towards each other ; and,
f Acts iv. 19. and v. 29. B Acts xx. 24. and xxi. 13.
h John iii. 11, 15. J Phil. iii. 9. k Rev. i. 5, 6.