Church even to the present hour. To him therefore must we look. Let us suppose the present assembly to be in the very state in which that assembly was on the day of Pentecost ; our eyes as blind, our hearts as hard, yea, our hands yet reeking with the Saviour's blood : must we despair ? No : He, who converted thousands of them in one single day, can work effec- tually on us also, and accomplish in us all that our necessities
require Let us pray then that the Spirit may be
poured out upon us as he was upon them : and then may we expect the same moral change on our hearts as was wrought on theirs. Let but " the word come to us in demonstration of the Spirit and of power," and all will be done for us that shall be necessary for our sanctification and our complete salvation.]
3. To whom we must give the glory of all that is good in us —
[" He that hath wrought us to the self-same thing, is God :" and he must be acknowledged as the sole author of all good. As in the miraculous powers that were imparted, " he was all in all ;" and as in the faculties which our different members possess, " he is all in all ;" so must he be in all that is wrought in our souls ^ Whatever then be our faculties of mind or body, they must be improved for him, that he may be glorified in all: and, whatever graces we possess, they must be exercised, not for our own honour, but for his, " that God in all things may be glorified through Christ Jesus."
3 ver. 6.
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