Part 29 (1/2)
”'For of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of G.o.d is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.' 1 Cor.
1:30.
”'Seeing then that we have a great High-priest, who is pa.s.sed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of G.o.d, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not a High-priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.' Heb. 4:14. 'For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts; and I will be to them a G.o.d, and they shall be to me a people: and they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord; for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.' Heb. 8:10-13.
”'This is the record, that G.o.d 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 G.o.d, hath not life.' 1 John 5:11, 12. Thanks be to G.o.d for his unspeakable gift.' 2 Cor. 9:15.
”'Truly my soul waiteth upon G.o.d; from him cometh my salvation.
He is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. My soul, wait thou only upon G.o.d, for my expectation is from him: he only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be moved. In G.o.d is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge is in G.o.d.' Psa. 62:1-7.”
REST.
”'Thus the heavens and the earth were finished: and on the seventh day G.o.d ended his work which he had made, and he rested the seventh day from all his work which he had made; and G.o.d blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, because that in it he had rested from all his work that he had created and made.' Genesis 2:1-3.
”'And Moses said, To-morrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord. So the people rested on the seventh day.' Exodus 16:23, 30.
”'And the women followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment.'
Luke 23:55, 56.
”Christ rested in the tomb of Joseph the last Sabbath under the law; but the evening and the morning were the first day. On that morning he closed his work of humiliation, manifested his victory over death--the curse denounced--by rising from the tomb, and rested on the first day of the week from all his humiliation work; his death, burial, and rest in the grave on the seventh day being the last part of that work.”
”My G.o.d, thy service well demands The remnant of my days: Why is this feeble life preserved, But to repeat thy praise?
”Thine arms of everlasting love Do this weak frame sustain, While life is hovering o'er the grave, And nature sinks with pain.
”Thou, when the pains of death a.s.sail, Wilt chase the fears of h.e.l.l, And teach my pale and quivering lips Thy matchless grace to tell.
”Calmly I'll lay my fainting head On thy dear faithful breast: Pleased to obey my Father's call To his eternal rest.
”Into thy hands, my Saviour G.o.d, Do I my soul resign, In firm dependence on that truth That made salvation mine.”
THE INWARD WARFARE.
”Strange and mysterious is my life; What opposites I feel within: A stable peace, a constant strife, The rule of grace, the power of sin.
Too often I am captive led, Yet daily triumph in my Head.
”I prize the privilege of prayer; But O, what backwardness to pray: Though on the Lord I cast my care, I feel its burden every day.
I seek his will in all I do, Yet find my own is working too.
”I call the promises mine own, And prize them more than mines of gold; Yet, though their sweetness I have known, They leave me unimpressed and cold.
One hour upon the truth I feed; The next, I know not what I read.