Christ." We are not to continue " as children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine :" we are to be aware of the devices of our enemies : we are to get a deeper insight into the great mystery of godliness : we are to become daily more and more established in the truth as it is in Jesus, so as to be proof against all " the sleight of men, and the cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive." On whatever side we are assaulted, our enemies should find us armed. Are we attacked by the specious reasonings of false philosophy, or the proud conceits of self-righteous moralists, we should reject the dogmas both of the one and the other, and " determine to know nothing but Jesus Christ and him cruci- fied." " To him we should cleave with full purpose of heart," making daily more and more use of him in all his offices. As our Priest, we should confide more simply in the atonement he has offered for us, and in his continual intercession for us at the right hand of God. As our Prophet, we should rely on him more entirely to instruct us in the knowledge of God's will, and to guide us into all truth. As our King, we should look to him to put down all our enemies, and to bring every thought of our hearts into captivity to his holy will. In a word, we should live more simply and entirely by faith in him, receiving daily out of his fulness all that we stand in need of, and improving it all for the glory of his name.
Thus to establish you in Christ, is a further intent of our ministry ; even to bring you to live in the same communion with him, as the members have with the head. You must feel that you have nothing in yourselves, but all in him : and whatsoever communications you receive from him, must be employed in executing his will, and in promoting his glory.]
3. As members of Christ's mystical body, we should seek to promote the welfare of the whole —
[In the natural body, all the members consult and act for the good of the whole : no one possesses any thing for itself only ; but all being compacted together by joints and liga- ments, and every joint, from the largest to the smallest, sup- plying a measure of unctuous and nutritious matter, each according to its ability, for the benefit of the member that is in contact with it, and for the good of the whole body, all grow together ; and that from infancy to youth, from youth to man- hood, till the whole has attained that measure of perfection which God has designed for it. Thus it must be in the mystical body of Christ's Church. Believers are no more in- dependent of each other, than they are of Christ : as they are united unto him by faith, so are they to be united to each other by love. None are to consider any thing which they possess as private property, but as a trust to be improved for