3. Those who have already come to God — [Yes ; blessed be God, many have come, through Christ as their way, and by Christ as their life : and O, whither are they going ? to their Father's house, whither Christ is gone before to prepare a place for them ! What a joyful thought ! every day and hour brings them nearer to their home ! and, for aught they know, they may arrive at those blissful mansions within the space of a few months, or days, or even hours! Regard not then if your road be occasionally rough ; but keep in it ; press forward ; turn not from it even to the end ; and, " when Christ, who is your life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory."]
John xiv. 8 — 11. Philip saith unto him, Lord, sheiv us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father ; and how sayest thou then, Sheiv us the Father ? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and, the Father in me ? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself : but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very ivorks' sake.
IT was a great advantage to the Apostles, that, at the close of his daily ministrations, they were admitted to a more intimate and familiar intercourse with their Lord : for by this means they received a much fuller instruction than others, and gained a deeper insight than others into the discourses which had been pub- licly delivered. Nor do we derive less benefit from this than they : because the explanations which were given to them in private are handed down to us, and unfold to us many things which we should not other- wise have been able to comprehend. We behold, too, their errors rectified. They were greatly mis- taken in many things. Their spirit was far from being, on some occasions, what God would approve ; as for instance, when they would have called fire from heaven to consume a Samaritan village ; and