defective would they all be found! Had Philip's error not been pointed out, he would probably have taken credit to himself as deserving the highest commendation : whereas his words rather merited reproof. Let us not, then, be too confi- dent respecting any of our services as pleasing and acceptable to God. At all events, let us bear in mind that they are attended with many imperfections ; and that, " if God were to call us into judgment for them, we could not answer him for one of a thousand."]
3. What reason we have to bless our God, who has provided us with such a Saviour —
[It is not a mere man, no, nor the first of all created beings, that is appointed to be a Saviour to us : but it is our incarnate God, "Jehovah's Fellow1," " God over all, blessed for evermore s." Hear ye this, and rejoice, all ye who feel your guilt and helplessness ! It is " God who has purchased the Church with his own blood1:" it is God who has wrought out a righteousness for his believing people": He, "in whom all the fulness of the Godhead dwells x," has in him " a fulness treasured up for us," out of which we are to receive, according to our diversified necessities, " even grace for grace y." Have you, then, seen Christ, known Christ, received Christ ? You have seen, and known, and received the Father also. If Christ be dwelling in you, then does the Father also dwell in you : and, if you are one with Christ, then are you one with the Father also. Know ye this, my brethren, that He who has said, " Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth," has added, for your encouragement, " for I am God, and none else2." Go on your way, therefore, rejoicing in him ; and let this be your song and boast, " In the Lord Jehovah have I righteousness and strength a."]
r Zech. xiii. 7. s Rom. ix. 5. * Acts xx. 28.
u Dan. ix. 24. Jer. xxiii. 6. x Col. ii. 9.
v Col. i. 19, with John i. 16. z Isai. xlv. 22. a Isai. xlv. 24.