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 hammer for hereticks, a touch-stone for docttrine, a rule for our lives, a comforter and counsellor in this house of our pilgrimage: a sovereign cordial in all our souls distresses; David found it so to his sweet experience, Psalm cxix. 50. "This is my comfort in my afflictions, for thy word hath quickened me." O! how excellent is the word, and who can set forth all its excllency? It is a glass to discover our spots, a lamp to guide us in the dark, a fire to warm our cold affections, a magazine to supply us with armour against our spiritual enemies. Here are suitable cordials for all our various cases, be it desertion, temptation, poverty, sickness reproach or persecution; here is the heavenly train, for making soft and tender hearts, here is meat for strong men, and milk for babes; which through the divine blessing will be both food and physic to our souls.

It is surely the Christian's duty to read and meditate much on God's most holy word, and that with pleasure and delight the child delights to read his father's will and testament, and see what is been