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 these. We trust to love the Lord our God, not only as we do now, with a weak tho' sincere affection, but ''with all our heart, with all our mind, with all our soul and with all our strength''. We look for power to ''rejoice evermore, to pray without ceasing and in every thing to give thanks''; knowing this is the will of God concerning us in Christ Jesus.

3. We expect to be made perfect in love, in that love which casts out all painful fear, and all desire, but that of glorifying him we love, and of loving and serving him more and more. We look for such an increase in the experimental knowledge and love of God our Saviour, as will enable us, always to ''walk in the light, as he is in the light''. We believe the whole mind will be in us which was also in Christ Jesus: that we shall love every man so as to be ready ''to lay down our life for his sake''. So as by this love to be freed from anger and pride, and from every unkind affection. We expect to be ''cleansed from all our idols, from all filthiness whether of flesh or spirit'': to be saved from all our uncleannesses, inward or outward, to be purified as he is pure.

4. We trust in his promise who cannot lie, that the time will surely come, when in every word and work we shall do his blessed will on earth as it is done in heaven: when all our conversation shall be seasoned with salt, all meet to minister grace to the hearers: when whether we eat or drink or whatever we do, it shall be done to