it. I need not say, in this place', how eagerly knowledge is sought, in the hopes of promoting men's future advancement in life : and shall that knowledge be neglected which has so inti- mate a connexion with your happiness through eternity ? I mean not to detract from the importance of human sciences : but I must say, that, when weighed against the knowledge of this mystery, all earthly knowledge is but as the dust upon the balance : for St. Paul, whose judgment in that particular we cannot doubt, " counted all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus his Lord." Though you possess ever so small a portion of the one, you may be happy : but without the other you can never be happy, in time or in eternity. T must say, then, to every one amongst you. Seek the knowledge of this mystery : seek to comprehend the height and depth, and length and breadth of the love of Christ con- tained in it. So shall it be progressively opened to your view, and your souls " be filled with all the fulness of God."]
2. What zeal you should manifest for the glory of your Lord —
[Did those who knew him not, crucify him ? and shall not those who know him, honour and exalt his name ? Should you forbear to do so, " the very stones would cry out against you." Let an ungodly world complain of you : let them call your zeal enthusiasm, and your love hypocrisy; but be not ye deterred from duty by all the clamour that can be raised against you. You well know what efforts Pilate made to save Jesus from the fury of his persecutors : yet did his entreaties only increase their thirst for his blood. Learn ye of them, and shew the same pertinacity in his righteous cause ; yea, rather, let your knowledge operate more forcibly than their ignorant animosity : and as they accounted nothing too much to infl.ict upon him, account ye nothing too great to do or suffer for the honour of his name.]
3. How well you may be reconciled to sufferings for his sake —
[He has ordained, that all his followers shall have a cross to bear. But shall you account it hard when it is laid upon you ? Was he, the Lord of Glory, crucified for you ; and will you not bear a cross for him ? It is not without reason that he bids you, under such circumstances, to " rejoice and leap for joy :" for " you are partakers of his sufferings," and rendered conformable to him ; and your reward in heaven is proportion- ably augmented by it. Be not, then, either afraid or ashamed of the cross for his sake ; but glory in it, and bear it after hira
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