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 rather than by a high profession before men. Through his goodness, his own works brought forth in the heart by the power of his Spirit, praise him; and from a deep sense of the treachery and deceitfulness of the natural man, there is a fear of falling by the hand of the enemy, and at the same time a humble trust in him who hath overcome the world and all the powers of the devil.

To such the Holy Scriptures are indeed precious and delightful; they rejoice to meditate on the law of the Lord, to exercise their understandings on that law in his fear, and to dwell upon his promises in a humble trust that they may be fulfilled in their blessed experience. Feeling an increasing sense of their own helplessness and sinfulness, they will flee for refuge and for succour to the Saviour of men, and be brought to feel that with him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge; that it is indeed an invaluable blessing to draw nigh unto God through him, and to derive all their strength through him. May we be kept so humble, so little, in our own estimation, as to know the Gospel promise applied to us individually: “All thy children shall be taught of the Lord, and great shall be the peace of thy children.”