from the love of Christ^. So, let the weakest of true believers be able to say, " I have set the Lord always before me ;" and he may confidently add, " Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved'"."]
Let me now address,
1. The timid —
[" Who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass ; and forgettest the Lord thy Maker" !" Is he not pre- sent with you, as well as with others ? or, " Is his ear heavy, that he cannot hear; or his hand shortened, that it cannot save ?" Dishonour him not by unbelief. Consider how awful will be the fate of " the fearful and unbelieving, when they shall take their portion in the lake of fire and brimstone" :" and " fear not him who can only kill the body, and after that has no more that he can do ; but fear Him who can destroy both body and soul in hell : yea, I say unto you. Fear him p."]
2. The enduring saint —
[How was God glorified in Moses, when he thus braved the wrath of Pharaoh, and took on him the chai'ge of carrying the whole nation of Israel to the promised land ! His extre- mities were great : but was he ever forsaken ? Was not the sea opened for him ; and manna rained down from heaven ; and water given him from the stricken rock ? Go ye then forward ; and know, that " your strength also shall be according to your dayi." Your trials may succeed each other, like the waves of the sea: but "he that endureth unto the end, the same shall be saved "■."]
1 Rom. viii. 33—39. ^ Ps. xvi. 8. » Isai. li. 12, 13.
° Rev. xxi. 8. p Luke xii. 4, 5. i Deut. xxxiii. 25.
J^ Matt. xxiv. 13.