Moreover, if only we believe in him, " he will baptize
us with the Holy Ghost and with fire," even as he did the three thousand on the day of Pentecost. Beloved brethren, think of all that ye can need, for body or for soul, for time or for eternity ; and assure yourselves that ye shall find it all in him : for there is " a fulness of it all treasured up in him ;" and " out of that fulness shall ye all receive," according to the utmost extent of your necessities or desires. Nor would I have you discouraged by the reception which this testimony receives from an ungodly world. "John Baptist's testimony was rejected by the Scribes and Pharisees, who said, He had a devil^:" yet was his testimony true. And the wise and mighty of this world may reject our testimony also : yet is it true ; and it shall be found true ere long, to the grief and shame of those who reject it, and to the unutterable comfort of all who truly and cordially receive it. Our testimony, in few words, is this ; " That God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son : he that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life^" And so far are we from wishing any one to receive it without inquiry, that we chal- lenge inquiry from every living man ; and pledge ourselves, that the more the evidences of this blessed truth are examined,
"^ Matt. xxi. 25, 26. ^ John v. 33, 36.
t Matt. xi. 2—6. " Matt. xi. 14.
X Matt. i. 21 — 23. y Isai.i. IS. Zech.xiii. 1. lJohni.7.
z Matt.xi.18. Lukevii.30. ^ 1 John v. 11, 12.