2. Awake to the performance of your duties to- wards him —
[Are you not ashamed that this adorable Saviour has held so low a place in your esteem, that even the most con- temptible things that can be imagined have had a pre-eminence above him? There is not a base lust which has not more power to sway you, than love to him, or zeal for his glory. There is not a vanity which you have not more desired, nor an object whom you have not more feared, nor a device you have not more relied upon, than he. Would you not have thought it impossible, that a Being so glorious in himself, and so gracious unto you, should ever be so despised by you, as he has been ? O ! humble yourselves before him ; and now set yourselves with all diligence to honour and to glorify his name. Let it no longer be a doubt, either in your own minds or in the minds of any that behold you, who has the pre- eminence in your souls. Give yourselves wholly to him : live altogether for him : let your daily and hourly inquiry be, " Lord, what wilt thou have me to do ?" In short, endeavour to begin the life of heaven whilst you are yet upon earth. When once you are there, "you will follow the Lamb whither- soever he goethV Follow him now : follow the footsteps which he trod on earth : follow him, in your affections, to the
k Rev. :dv. 4. VOT. xvnr. M