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never to part with Christ and heaven. He knows that it is impossible to be a loser by God, or to purchase heaven at too dear a rate. He knows that whatsoever it cost him, heaven will fully pay for all. He knows that even our duty is not our smallest privilege and mercy; but that the more we do for God, the more we receive, and the greater is our gain and honour. He is not one that desires the end without the means he complains of his backwardness to obey, but never complains of the strictness of the command. He loyes the holiness, justice, and goodness of the law, while he bewails the unholiness and badness of his heart. He does not desire God to command him less, but desires grace and ability to do more.

4. A Christian indeed, is one that daily delights himself in God, and finds more solid pleasure in his commands and promises than all this world can give him. Religion is not a tiresome task to him; the yoke of Christ is easy to him, and his burden light. That which others perform from mere necessity, against their will, he goes to with delight. He prays because he loves to pray; and thinks and speaks of holy things, because he takes pleasure in them. If it is a delight to men to converse

ch their dearest friends, or to hear from em at a distance, it is no wonder if the ristian delights to read the Gospel mysies of love, and to find there the proses of everlasting happiness; and to see the face of Jesus Christ, the clearest age of the eternal Deity. It is not bare ternal duty which he is taken up with: t it is God, in creatures and ordinances, at he seeks and lives upon. He would t change the heavenly delight which he ds in the exercise of faith, and hope, d love to God, for all the carnal pleares of the world. He "would rather be door-keeper in the house of God, than to vell in the palaces of wickedness;" "in e multitude of his thoughts within him, e comforts of God delight his soul." His editation of God is sweet, and he is glad the Lord. One look to Christ; one romise of the Gospel; one serious thought f the life which he is to live with God for ver, affords his soul more solid comfort han all the kingdoms on earth can afford. And though he lives not continually in hese high delights; yet peace with God, nd peace of conscience, and some delight n God and godliness, is the ordinary temer of his soul. His grace is not so small s to be undiscernable; nor is it a sleepy

buried seed, or principle. They that have a good degree of grace, and keep it in lively exercise, are not so much troubled with doubts of its sincerity, as the weak and languid christian. They blot not their evidence by so many infirmities and falls: they are more in the light, and have more acquaintance with themselves, and more sense of the abundant love of God. They have more of the spirit of adoption, and can call him Father, with greater freedom and comfort.

5. A Christian indeed, is grounded in humility. He is so well acquainted with his manifold imperfections, and daily failings, and great unworthiness, that he is very low and vile in his own eyes, and therefore can easily endure to be low and vile in the eyes of others. He even ab hors himself when he finds the perverseness of his heart to God, and how little he knows of him, and how little he loves him in comparison of what he ought: and how little of heaven is upon his heart; and how backward his thoughts are to the life to come. These are as fetters upon his soul He groans under them as a captive, and longs for the day of his deliverance. He sees in himself so much darkness, imperfection, and want of further grace, that he