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38 who exalteth his above himself and the world, “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me in My throne, even as I also overcame, and am set with My  in His throne,” [Rev. iii. 21.].

In reading too the word of, as in contemplating His , methinks I again see you ascending the high mountain of the Divine love, purity, and holiness, since whilst your bodily eye is occupied in the outward letter of the sacred volume, your intellectual eye is soaring in the elevated regions of its internal spirit and life. You presently discover, therefore, as you read, the bright and beneficent coimtenance of the, Whose high and holy name is. You behold Hini condescending to become a man, that He might effect the redemption and salvation of men, by fighting against and subduing the powers of darkness, by teaching the interior truths of His own Divine wisdom, by setting an example of the purest holiness, and by finally making His humanity, that so all mankind, in all future ages, might by faith and love have access to Him, and conjunction of life with Him. You learn also the heavenly lessons of humility, of self-denial, of meekness, of charity, of well-doing, and of combat against sin,—by the practice of which you are to become the follower and new-born child of this