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 good Shepherd, whose every look is love; whose every motion is watchful solicitude for the simple sheep who follow Him; who fills them with the fresh pasture of His goodness; who leads them to drink of the fountains of His holiness, and bestows all this care upon them, not for anything which they have done, but for His own name's sake!

N all the instructions of our Lord, greater force is laid upon, than believing; and in , equal force is laid upon sincerity of principle. "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye them," is also rendered of greater importance by the sincerity with which our doings are to be accompanied, for "unless our righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, in no case shall we enter the kingdom of heaven."

As both these precepts are delivered by the great Redeemer Himself, how irresistibly do they appeal to our obedience! what injunction can be more forcible, that to our faith we add goodness and holiness of life! The separation of faith from charity, and the supposition that believing the truth is more efficacious than doing the truth, has been productive of serious evils, has lowered the standard of Christian morality and watchfulness, and left men satisfied with the dangerous idea that a death-bed repentance will atone for