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 that is in Jesus Christ. Value and esteem more and more that precious truth, ''By grace we are saved through faith''. Admire more and more the free grace of God, in so loving the world as to give ''his only Son, that whosoever believeth on him might not perish but have everlasting life''. So shall the sense of the sinfulness you feel on the one hand, and of the holiness you expect on the other, both contribute to establish your peace and to make it flow as a river. So shall that peace flow on with an even stream, in spite of all those mountains of ungodliness, which shall become a plain in the day when the Lord cometh, to take full possession of your heart. Neither will sickness or pain, or the approach of death, occasion any doubt or fear. You know a day, an hour, a moment with God is as a thousand years. He cannot be streightened for time, wherein to work whatever remains to be done in your soul. And God's time is always the best time. Therefore be thou ''careful for nothing''. Only make thy request known unto him, and that not with doubt or fear, but thanksgiving: as being previously assured, he cannot withold from thee any manner of thing that is good.

3. Thirdly, the more you are tempted to give up your shield, to cast away your faith, your confidence in his love, so much the more take heed that you hold fast that, whereunto you have attained. So much the more labour to stir up the gift of God which is in you. Never let that