conduct, apply to him for an explanation of it, if you will ; but judge him not. Are you weak? judge not the strong: are you strong ? despise not the weak : but all of you deter- mine this rather, to " take up every stumbling-block out of your brother's way," and " seek those things whereby one may edify another11."]
h Rom. xiv. 13, 19.
Acts xxii. 16. And now, why tarriest thou ? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
THE conversion of St. Paul, taken in connexion with all the circumstances attending it, is one of the most remarkable events recorded in the New Testa- ment. Amongst the numberless observations to which it might give rise, there is one only which I would notice : and that is, that it displays, in a pre- eminent degree, the sovereignty of God in the dis- pensation of his mercies. Considering how he was engaged at the moment when God was pleased to arrest him in his career of sin ; and what condescen- sion was manifested to him, in the personal appearance of the Lord Jesus himself to him, and in the oral communications made to him by the Saviour of the world ; it must be acknowledged that he was one of the most signal monuments of divine grace that ever existed from the foundation of the world3. But it is with the direction that was given him by Ananias that I propose at this time to occupy your minds : for, though it was addressed to him alone in the first instance, it is precisely what should be delivered to every one that is convinced of sin, and that is inquiring with sincerity, " Lord, what wilt thou have me to do ?"
I propose, then, to consider this direction,
a ver. 15. with 1 Tim. i. 12— 1C.