thoughts in your hearts, know assuredly that the God of this world hath blinded your eyes, and that " you are in darkness even until now." Were you of the happy number of the Lord's people, it would have " been given you to behold the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven :" but " if you see them not, it is because ye are not of God."]
3. How ungrateful are they who do not endeavour to walk worthy of them !
[These things are revealed, not as matters of speculation, but as means of happiness, and as incentives to holiness of life. Do but think what manner of persons ye ought to be in all holy conversation and godliness ; ye, 1 say, for whom such things have been done, and to whom they have been revealed ! But it will be well for you to attend to that expression in our text, that " God hath prepared these things for them that love him." True, in the first instance it is for his enemies : but they do not remain his enemies ; on the contrary, they " love him," and serve him, and " wait for him":" and verily, if, after you have been enlightened by the Spirit of God, and been enabled to behold all these wonders of love and mercy, you do not devote yourselves wholly to the Lord, you shew that you have no part or lot in this matter. You may have believed, like Simon Magus; but like Simon Magus you shall perish : for know assuredly, that, " if ye be Christ's, ye will crucify the flesh with the affections and lusts, and will glorify God with your body and your spirit, which are his°."]
" Compare the passage as it stands in Isaiah, with the same as cited by Paul.
" If this be the subject of a Mission Sermon, the duty of diffusing over the face of the whole earth these glorious truths may here be pressed to great advantage.