of it whilst yet your errors may be rectified, and your iniquities forgiven.]
2. Those who are made willing to embrace it —
[Think who it is that has disposed your minds to the attainment of everlasting life : and give him the glory due unto his name. It is God alone that " hath made you to differ" from the unbelieving world; and therefore to him alone must be all the praise. Now then, if you really profess to have experienced the grace of God, we call upon you to " glorify his word:" shew that you believe it to be true: let it be seen that you love it, and trust in it, and obey it ; and that you " esteem it more than your necessary food." Attend the ministration of it as the Gentiles did, not with vain curiosity, but with the deepest reverence and most lively gra- titude. Hear it as the word of God to your souls : hear it as glad tidings of great joy ; and let every succeeding Sabbath bring you into a closer acquaintance with it, and a more entire conformity to its dictates. Above all things, attend to what it says of Christ ; and receive him as your all-sufficient light, and your complete salvation.]
Acts xiv. 22. We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
REAL fortitude is shewn, not more in overcoming difficulties which unexpectedly occur, than in en- countering firmly those which are foreseen. In order to meet trials aright, we must be armed with a hea- venly principle : and hence arises the need of a fixed principle in the heart of a Christian ; since he is as- sured, that he shall have many enemies to conflict with, and that his way to heaven lies through much tribulation. This is declared to us by an inspired Apostle ; who himself experienced the truth of it, and has forewarned us to expect that it shall also be fulfilled in us.
Let us consider his testimony, I. As confirmed in him —
The whole life of the Apostle, after he embraced