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 shall ever be found to check the progress of their mental culture, or to mar the peace that rules within. The truths of heaven, as the divine seed of David, are ever flourishing in rich luxuriance, and are successively opening fresh blossoms of wisdom and love: thus the soul of each one becomes as the garden of the Lord, and a paradise of the living God.

Make then, reader, this divine seed of David your own—receive it and nourish it in your heart, so shall you be blessed in your day and generation: you will become as the salt of the earth, the city on the hill, and an eternal excellency, the joy of many generations; you will be the object of your heavenly Father's care, and the blessings of his kingdom will be your own for ever.

HE reason why the Lord exhorts to a state of watchfulness, is, because we are unacquainted with the day and hour when the Son of Man may come: and another reason why this watchful state is required, is, that the master of the house, when he comes, may not find us sleeping. Spiritual sleep is a most dangerous state to be in. It is in this state that the enemy comes and sows tares among the wheat, and goes his way; and to be upon our guard against the approach of this state, is essential both to our present and future happiness.