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warmest Christian love. Accept the same for yourself and your dear sister and niece.

Your Sister in the changeless love of the Coming One,
MARY L.

TO CORRESPONDENTS. Address Letters for the Editor, care of Printer, 335, Strand, W.C. R. R., BREWER STREET.-Many thanks for your communication, and the encouragement contained therein. Respecting Mr. Baxter's Book about Louis Napoleon-We consider the writer totally mistaken. The Antichrist foreshadowed in Scripture is not likely to be found in an European Monarch. Analogy would certainly lead us to look for the rising of the man of Sin in the midst of the Jews, and in their own land. There must first be a gathering back of some of the people, and the erection of a Temple at Jerusalem. We do not think that any prophecy can be found to favour the idea of Antichrist arising as one already possessing power, or apart from the Jewish people. Is it not evident that Antichrist, to be successful, must needs have the apparent surroundings of the true Christ? We think the book in question is calculated to do much harm. Such attempted explanations of the prophetic Scriptures invariably bring shame upon their authors, and lead men to discredit prophecy altogether, when the predictions of commentators prove fallacious, as they invariably do. The order of truth presented in 2 Thess. ii. shows that "the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering unto him," in the air (according to 1 Thess. iv. 17) must precede the manifestation of the Man of Sin. It is therefore utterly wrong for Christians to be occupied with earthly signs. The Lord's purposes respecting the Church must be fulfilled, before the accomplishment of prophecy on earth, as to Israel and the nations. At least this is according to the light we have upon the Word of God.

W. B. S.-Your very lengthy communication has been perused by us on two separate occasions, that we might not hastily decide upon our answer. We cannot however accept the views you press upon us. It would entail the necessity of our repeating the contents of papers which have already appeared in "Precious Truth," if we undertook to answer you in detail. The point at issue is capable of being settled very briefly. You think an assembly ought to excommunicate a brother for teaching heretical doctrine. We say that to do so is to assume a power which the Lord has not committed to the Church. You adopt the usual arguments of "the exclusives in support of your views, and they appear very feasable until they are thoroughly sifted. Then they fail utterly. Christians ought never to submit to any assumption of authority which cannot be established by direct appeal to Scripture. This should be accepted as a principle. If the Lord has given power to the assembly to put away a brother for teaching or holding false doctrine, let the passage of Scripture be cited, and we will bow to it.

If however, as we maintain, the Master has retained all power respecting such cases in his own hands, every effort to amalgamate the directions of the Word in 1 Cor. v. with the teaching of Gal. v. must prove worse than futile. Depend upon it, dear brother, the Church has sadly failed in the non-recognition of the Active power of our Lord Jesus Christ in the midst of the assemblies. Let us endeavour, in faithfulness and love, to do whatever he has commanded us. But let us be equally careful to refrain from encroaching upon his own sacred prerogatives. You say there is unholiness in the thoughts expressed in our article on "The Brethren." We believe you misapprehend us. Though Christians have not power to execute judgment upon a Brother who may be found teaching heresy, we would none the less maintain the holiness of God's house, and refuse to tolerate evil. If need he, we must withdraw from fellowship with those who defile. It may be a partial, or an entire separation in walk, just as the case may require. There is, however, all the difference between permission to withdraw oneself from a house and power entrusted to us to turn another person out. You are mistaken in supposing we would exclude from "The Table" an unbaptized believer. We have no power to exclude. Scripture does not speak of receiving to, or excluding from the Lord's Table. Receiving into Christian fellowship implies more

than communion in "Breaking of Bread." Those in recognised fellowship ought to be faithful to the Lord's plain commands. Happily there is no practical difficulty about it. If a little company of Christians are agreed to act in conformity with the words of their Lord, the least that can be expected of anyone wishing to company with them is, that he or she should conform to the first act of obedience required in the Christian walk of faith! Yet, if a believer were to thrust himself, unrecognised upon such a fellowship at the breaking of bread, and claimed his right to participate, he must act as he will-the responsibility is his. The Lord's Table is pre-eminently the place of self-judgment, in contra-distinction to the thought of recrimination and exclusion. If the brother will not judge himself, the Lord will judge him. 1 Cor. xi. 31-32.

W. P.-Accept our sincere thanks for your encouraging communication. May the Lord bless and prosper your efforts in spreading the knowledge of his truth. The price of Mr Dorman's pamphlet is one shilling-that by Mr Hall six-pence. (Houlston and Wright, Paternoster Row.) We consider the former by far the most profitable reading, and are sorry it was not produced at a smaller cost.

J. C., jun., KENSINGTON.-In the extract we gave from Mr. Dorman's book there was no intention of reiterating the charge of heresy against Mr N-, nor have we any such purpose now. Yet, acccrding to your own showing, he did circulate tracts which created feelings of anxiety and alarm, and which he in consequence withdrew for reconsideration. May we ask attributed to him? And if so, in what pamphlet is such denial whether that course resulted in a positive denial of the doctrines all to be defended," was induced, not by any extracts from his writings quoted by others, but by the pamphlets which you what we have read has produced an unfavourable impression of yourself sent us. We have no desire to say more than that Mr N's soundness as a teacher. However the Lord alone is his judge and ours, and the day will declare the counsels of our hearts.

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W. S.-We acknowledge, with thankfulness, your very receive the words of encouragement with which, through the It affords us much comfort to acceptable communication. Lord's grace, many loving correspondents now favour us. Your letter, written with such evident spiritual intelligence, causes from our heart another note of praise to your Father through Jesus Christ our Lord. We have the same desire and ours, who has wrought so wondrously for us and in us with yourself to devote some space in our little serial to a consideration of "The books of the Bible." It is only through having had our time much taken up in various ways that we have not already commenced a series of papers on the subject. If the Lord shall tarry, we trust soon to do so. You are mistaken in supposing the Editor to be a Reverend. He follows an avocation which in social rank is not much above that of Paul and his companions. [See Acts. xviii. 3.] whose standing is altogether unscriptural. To accept such a Moreover, the above title specially pertains to the clergy, position would be to destroy the testimony of "PRECIOUS TRUTH." As to a place of meeting for reading the scriptures, &c., if you will furnish your name and address, we shall be happy to name one or two in your neighbourhood. [Letters received from J. H. Jun., A. G., and J. W. L.]

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PRECIOUS TRUTH.

No. 25.]

"WHAT SAITH THE SCRIPTURE?''-(Rom. iv. 3.)
London: J. F. BATEMAN, 22, Paternoster Row, entrance in Ivy Lane.
APRIL 1, 1867.

ALWAYS A CHILD.

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added those memorable words, "Of whom, I am chief." (1 Tim. i. 5.) This matured servant had had the DEAR CHILD OF GOD,-Once again I take up my received special revelations which were not made very highest honours conferred upon him. He had pen, to address to you personally, a few words of known though the other apostles. He had seen the divine love. I think of you as a child-always a Lord in his glory. child-always a Lord in his glory. Yea, he had been up in the third child. How sweetly had "John the beloved" learnt heaven. But now that he was tarrying down here on the lesson of perpetual childhood! He himself wrote the earth, he was still "the chief of sinners!"

enabled to humble himself.

Paul

"Whosoever, therefore, shall humble himself as a little

in the spirit of a little child. His language, though was, indeed, great in the estimate of all who are able full of deep truth, has yet the stamp of childhood's to judge according to the mind of the Divine Master. plainess and simplicity, and those for whom he furnished And the reason was, that through grace, he was his epistles are always "children," "dear children," "little children." As to continuance and progress in the knowledge of God, he could address himself to some by the title of fathers, and others were young men and strong. (1 John ii. 13-14.) But he speaks to all these, in company with those who were babes in Christ; and they are all "dear children," "little

children."

child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven." (Matt. xviii. 4.)

Beloved,-Do you pray for a spirit of meekness, and the robe of humility? Those only who cultivate these qualities, the Lord delighteth to honour. Nor Ah, beloved, we want to know more of this spirit do such look for exaltation on earth, they are content of childhood; the happy, confident, yet humble christian walk in the world ends in eternal honour to wait for an incorruptible crown. The lowly spirit of a "little one," neither knowing how to pro-and glory. While, on the other hand, every manivide for self, nor seeking to do so. Content, yea happy, in the provisions of the Father's house, what festation of pride must of necessity terminate, sooner ever they may be. And as to felt needs, just asking and or later, in humiliation and shame. having.

Thus it is, in measure, with you and me, beloved.
Thus it ought to be always.

It is the simple basis of discipleship, this childlike
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Wisdom declares there are seven things which are abomination to the Lord; and the first in the list is, "A proud look"! (Prov. vi. 17.)

First and last then, the distinguishing walk of a true christian is the spirit which characterises a dear

child.

Moreover, we see that a believer can always thus be addressed by a brother in Christ, on the ground of the " common salvation."

"I write unto you, dear children, because your sins are for. given you for his name's sake." (1 John ii. 12.)

"Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." (Matt. xviii. 3.) And having entered the kingdom by faith, as children, we are to walk in the same spirit. In this character of humility alone, are we able to follow our This is the basis of fellowship or communion with Lord upon earth. In our fallen Adam nature, pride saints. I who write to you, am a sinner saved by springs up long before we have attained to years of Jesus. And I address myself to you as one who, but discretion. And in the world, pride is considered a for the lovingkindness of the same Saviour, would be very proper quality. So that if a person were to" without hope and without God in the world." arrive at maturity without it, such a one would be looked upon as very contemptible indeed. That is the order of things where Satan reigns. But in "the kingdom of God's dear Son," it is far otherwise.

There the new born (or regenerate) person begins in childlike docility, and the stages of youth and fatherhood, so far from being periods for the growth of pride, should be marked by even a deeper humility. When Paul declared, "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners," in meekness of spirit he

"I write unto you because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake."

That which I write, just now, is an epitome of the Holy Spirit's message by John the beloved, in the 1st and 2nd chapters of his general epistle.

The disciples had seen God manifest in the flesh, they had heard and touched him. They have declared Him to us, that we may have fellowship with them, and consequently with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. We are to know God as having come to us in perfect love. The Son came to seek, and

save, and keep us. He came in every respect as the full expression of God's love to us. He has made known His Father to us as our Father. All this is communicated to us that our joy may be full.

"God is light."

It is worse than vain for one to say he has fellowship with God, while walking in darkness. If a Christian is hating his brother, he is walking in darkness. (See chap. ii. ver. 6.)

On the contrary-If we walk in the light, that is, in simplicity and truth, then love abounds; we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanseth us from all sin. We enjoy full consciousness of this, and rejoice that it is effectual for every believer. If we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. "I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no "good thing." (Rom. vii. 18.) But then I judge it, I do not consent to it. I do not deny its existence, I am not innocent. But I desire to be true-hearted, to be in the light, and not to hide the faults which I detect in myself. True-heartedness leads me to confess all to God, to keep back nothing. "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our "sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." Precious consequence of a saint or a sinner coming to the light, i.e. to God--just as he is. Only act simply and truly, as a child who owns its fault to a loving Father. As surely as I confess, so surely will God forgive and cleanse me from all unrighteousness. Such are the pure and perfect ways of him who is "Light." Though I am an adopted son, His word tells me I am a sinner, and if I say I am not I make him a liar. Awful thought, indeed.

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Now though, as to what you are of yourself-you are a sinner, yet you are a child of God, accepted in

the beloved. Therefore, dear child, "sin not." Hate sin, avoid it, judge it. In short, take God's side about it, even against yourself. We have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous -He is also our propitiation-in Him we find favour. He makes our approach to God propitious--we are received lovingly. We know Him because He has made himself known unto us. But do we know Him practically? Do we show that we understand Him? Can I prove to myself conclusively that I know Jesus Christ, the righteous? Yes. I know it by keeping his commandments.

"HIS COMMANDMENTS ARE NOT GRIEVOUS."

Dear Child-"babe," or "young man," or "father" whatever be the stage of your spiritual growthbut especially if you be of the second or third class—

"LOVE NOT THE WORLD."

The world has many phases, many attractions. There is Pharoah's court, and there are many grades, from that point to the habitations where men revel in the contents of their flesh-pots with their leeks and table the enticements" Love not the world." You garlic, However fair the attraction-however palaare in it, you must use it—but take care you do not love it. You cannot love both it and God.

"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." suffer

If you your affection to rest upon the world or its things, you will lose consciousness of the love of God.

"For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world."

There is no qualification here. Let us ever be watchful, beloved, as to that upon which our love is permitted to rest. To love aught of this world is to take part against God.

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Friendship with the world is enmity against God!" (Jas.iv) This puts us in our right attitude as heavenly citizens. Here-strangers and pilgrims. "The world passeth away, and the lust thereof; but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever."

May we be whole-hearted doers of His will, and increasingly so, till the Lord shall come ! Hoping to conclude this train of thought in my next, if the Lord shall tarry so long,

Your's ever,

In Christ Jesus our Lord,
E. P. T.

THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.

TO CHRISTIANS WHO TRUST TO ITS GUIDANCE. ("Quicunque Vult,")

BELOVED,-If you have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, you have eternal life through Him. He says, you have "passed from death unto life."

"If when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life." (Rom. v. 10.)

This is the language of inspiration as to the question of your salvation.

On the contrary, they are precious. By this I know that I know Him. Do I desire to abide in Now, as to the mystery of the "Incarnation." Him? Then I desire to walk even as He walked. Scripture says it is a mystery-and true believers There is the old commandment, "To love; " There are profoundly conscious that it is so. Yet the writer is the new commandment, "To walk in the light." of "Quicunque Vult" pretends to give you an exact That is our calling. We are the children of light-analysis of "God manifest in the flesh!" Moreover, It is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is he says, it is necessary to everlasting salvation, that past and the true light now shineth. The flesh, which you believe the incarnation to be that which he dewas in darkness, is crucified. Through the rent veil, fines it! we, as regenerate children, have access to the pure unsullied light. Now, this is known to faith; soon, we shall be there bodily-where darkness cannot

come.

Such presumptuous dealing with the Infinite, may impose upon superstition, but the word of God alone can produce true faith. Look, then, at what we are taught by "the Spirit of truth"-

"Without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory." (1 Tim. iii. 16.)

How shall we hope to grasp and define that which the inspired apostle declares to be, beyond controversy, a great mystery?

Happy the simple hearted who, in faith, say amen, to the declaration of the word of God; and repudiate all man's attempts to scrutinise that which is far too profound for the capacities of the creature.

Yet God has been pleased to make known to us the instrumentality by which "the Word was made most intelligent faith, though it baffles the prurient flesh." Scripture furnishes ample instruction for the curiosity of the carnal mind.

Compare the vain utterances of Athanasius, with the sublime yet simple and inspired language of Luke the Evangelist

"The angel answered and said unto Mary, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee:, therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." (Luke i. 35.) Now listen to the response of faith—

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Let us consider, with the Lord's help, a most important subject-the Judgment Seat of Christ. The Scriptures clearly teach that every believer the same time and place receive the fullest praise and reward from the Lord, for every act of faith and labour of love.

"And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it will have to give an account of himself to God, and at unto me according to thy word." (Luke i. 38.)

Athanasius teaches you to repeat that which is just sufficiently near to truth as to render it exceedingly dangerous and bewildering. Of this character is that which he has set forth respecting the resurrection. The Lord Jesus Christ is, indeed, the ordained judge of all mankind. Yet it is not true that at His coming "all men shall rise again with their bodies." The word of God tells us that the first display of his resurrection power will be manifest by calling his church up to Himself in the air. (See 1 Thess. iv. 17, and 1 Cor. xv. 51-52.)

The first fact is settled by the following Scripture: may be accepted of him. For we must all appear before the "Wherefore we labour, that whether present or absent, we Judgment Seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men."-(2 Cor. v. 9-11.)

Other parts of the Word of God-(see Acts x. 42; xvii. 31; 1 Pet. iv. 5)-show clearly that the Lord Jesus Christ will judge ALL men, both regenerate and

We ought ever to bear upon our hearts the follow-unregenerate, but it is Christians who are specially ing words (spoken, of course, to believers only)—

"Christ loved the Church [i.e. the assembly of God], and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word; that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish." (Eph. v. 25-27.)

Such is our Lord's purpose about us who believe in Him during this dispensation. We are of the order of the first resurrection.

"Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection." (Rev. xx. 6.)

Our Lord will afterwards come to judge the nations upon earth. Then, during a thousand years, He will reign with his saints in glory, over the world.

"But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished." (Rev. xx. 5.)

Finally, the dead who have died in their sins, will stand for judgment before the great white THRONE. (Rev. xx. 11-12.)

Beloved,-Why will you still dishonour the Lord by countenancing such traditions as those of Athanasius? He says, (and you have been content

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referred to in this passage from 2nd Corinthians. The Apostle Paul is writing to believers, and he says we must all." Paul's design, in that chapter, is to press upon the Corinthians that they, like him, should so strive to live unto Christ, that they should be accepted of Him, that is, acceptable servants, and know it, both now, in their consciences, and hereafter at the Judgment Seat of Christ. The question of salvation is not raised, but of practical walk.*

*It is sufficient here briefly to state that Scripture presents three strongly-marked periods of judgment-That of the Church after being caught up to meet the Lord in the air, 1 Thess. iv.; to reign on the throne of his father David, Matt. xxv.; That That of the nations upon earth, at the Lord's subsequent coming of the Great White Throne, Rev. xx. The Lord Jesus Christ is seen as judge in all three, according to his word-"The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son." That it is, in Rev. xx., the Blessed Son from whose face the earth and the heaven flee away, is evident, because the same Divine One who sits on the throne tells John to "Write," and reveals himself as the "Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end." Just as it is true, that "Without him was not anything made that was made;" so it is from him that they flee away. In the meantime, it is He "who upholdeth all things by the word of his power," for "by Him all things consist. (Col. i.)

In Romans xiv. the Holy Ghost presents the same | provided for in the heavenly priesthood of Jesus. truth

"We shall all stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ.

For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God."—(Rom. xiv. 12.)

Now there is abundant evidence in both these epistles (as well as in his others) that the Apostle Paul rejoiced, while he wrote them, in having eternal life in present possession. The object and design, therefore, of our standing at Christ's Judgment Seat cannot be to determine who is to be saved and who is not. That is settled down here.

"He that believeth in Me hath everlasting life." We have passed from death unto life, and we know it, if we love the brethren. "Now are we the sons of God," and by the Holy Spirit we say, "Abba, Father." We who had Adam to our father, now rejoice, as new creatures in Christ Jesus," in the Fatherhood of God.

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"Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures." (Jas. i. 18.)

Nevertheless, sin is not contemplated in the Word of God as a necessity, or something unavoidable during our regenerate state. On the contrary, as looking forward, the Christian should seek so to abide in Christ, and keep His words abiding in him, so to walk in the Spirit and in the consciousness of being "risen with Christ,"-as to be kept from sinning.

"Whosoever abideth in Him sinneth not."—(1 John iii. 6.) "Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh." (Gal. v.)

"Reckon ye yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God, through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Rom. xvi.)

While this standard is to be kept, prospectively, before the soul, yet when we turn, and glance retrospectively-it may be only for an hour,-then,

"If we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." (1 John.)

Men may not have detected anything wrong in us, and our heart may not condemn us;-happy state! but doubtless it would if we knew all about ourselves, as God knows us. Such is our frailty while associated with the old nature, that, to our natural mind, it the new. Hence the experience of the Church is would seem impossible to live and walk entirely in proving to itself and angelic beings the absolute Adam nature, which will be accomplished by the Lord need of the doing away of every relic of the old at His Coming. That regenerate persons could possibly sin at all-much less, grossly-after having all their sins forgiven, saved from hell, sealed with the Holy Spirit, and made heirs of glory everlasting, is convincing proof of the utter ruin of our natural

Neither can the object of the Judgment Seat of Christ be the settlement and infliction of punishment. Every thing of the nature of penalty for our sins was endured by Jesus on the Cross, when he "finished the work that the Father had given him to do," including the bearing of our sins-all of them-"in His own body on the tree," making for us "an end of sin by the sacrifice of Himself." ALL our sins were fully atoned for by our Lord Jesus Christ, when He was "made a curse for us." By faith in Him, we are "justified freely from all things from which we could not be justified [cleared] by the lawment Seat of Christ--to bring out how far we have Thus I see the necessity and design of the Judg of Moses." We who believe in Jesus receive in the stood and acted in the NEW LIFE, with the view, also, Second Man a DIVINE righteousness in the stead of that creature innocency we lost in Adam. (as I think) to the justification of the Lord in his dealings with all and each in the matter of "reward." "So then, every one of us shall give account of himself to God."

"HE IS UNTO US ...... RIGHTEOUSNESS." Being thus started afresh, with, and in, a new and divine life, how appropriate that we should be held responsible for all our actions in that new life! Therefore, as man in Adam was placed under trial, but fell, so, as new creatures in the Second Man, we are left for a season, if needs be, under trial. But as, when standing alone, in Adam, man fell, so it must be a principle inwoven in our souls, that we cannot stand except by communion with, and by the imparted grace or strength of, our Living, Ever-present Head.

"Strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might."

hearts.

Now this "giving account," (let the reader judge,) will relate to our misdeeds while believers, and will not include any service of ours.* As taught to call ourselves "unprofitable servants," we feel that silence concerning service is ever more becoming. Both the passages I have cited from the epistles to the Romans and Corinthians are warnings from wrong doing. For it will be indeed grievous to have to condemn ourselves in any respect, before the Lord. In the light of His presence, we shall see all things

In order not to fall, we must realize an union clearly, and hasten to confess and condemn all that

If I

as intimate as that of the Branch in the Vine.
cease to abide, by communion, in Christ, I cease for
the time being to remember myself as a poor strength-
less branch. But so long as I abide in Christ, I
know myself a branch,-know that I cannot bear
fruit of myself, am not deceived by my evil heart,
feel that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no
good thing, and know that Christ's strength is made
perfect in my weakness.

Now our failings and sins are most graciously

was not of faith. In the presence of the JUDGE nothing can be hidden.

"Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade (2 Cor. vi.)

men.'

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All that was of the nature of true works of faith

and labours of love will be graciously owned by the Master, even to the gift of a cup of cold water to a disciple, which will in no wise lose its reward.

I gather these conclusions (for myself) from the general tenor of Scripture, rather than from any precise statements.

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