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“ The brethren of Jesus should love one another. Hatred of one who belongs to Christ, is hatred of Christ himself; for his language is applicable to the feelings of the heart, as well as to words and conduct; 'in as much ye did it not to me!' How serious the thought of harbouring any feeling but love towards an object of the love of Jesus! of Christ's heart and ours thus suffering! 'A new commandment,' says Jesus to his disciples, 'give I unto you, that ye love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.' John xiii. ”

“ In every thing which respected the Christian profession and eternity, he loved and strongly recommended decision and steadiness. Being thus minded, he pointedly condemned men "halting between two opinions—suffering themselves like children to be tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine," and unduly yielding to mere desire human attachments and local circumstances in the profession of the gospel, and in seeking glory, and honour, and immortality. ”

“ I wish you rather to keep your thoughts at home—to pause, and reflect, that you yourself shall be one of the multitude: and when the Divine Judge, 'whose eyes were as a flame of fire, shall, with one penetrating glance, discern the characters of these countless myriads, and 'shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth the sheep from the goats, placing the sheep on his right hand, and the goats on his left;'—you must either, with heavenly joy, take your station on the right, or, with trembling and reluctant despair, join, the company on the left. ”

“ It is he who believes what is testified of Jesus, that is reconciled to God, and shall stand in the judgment. For to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.—even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. 'Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin,’ Rom. ”

“ Professions of faith and love are all vanity and emptiness, if you are not 'constrained by the love of Christ, to live to him who died for sinners, and rose again.' If you are living in sin, or if the world has the chief room in your hearts, you are none of his. ”

“ Let those who are looking forward to the ministry, and who are in some measure prepared to fill up the vacancies that death is now and then making in the Church, emulate the virtues of their departed fathers, and even prepare to excel them in activity and usefulness. And let the congregation cordially acquiescence in their bereavement, and love one another with a brotherly love, in honour preferring one another, and look to Christ, the Head of the Church, that he would give them a pastor according to his own heart, who may feed them with understanding and knowledge. ”

“ Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, In as much as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.—And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal," Matth. ”

“ Meantime, it is one of unutterable moment; for the sentence of the one shall be an eternal blessing, the doom of the other, an eternal curse. Those on the left shall go away into everlasting punishment of those on the right, into everlasting; life. ”

“ If you feel the value of that gospel, the faith of which has filled your soul with joy and peace, which comforts your heart in afflictions, and sustains your mind in the prospect of the terrors of death, and the awful solemnities of judgment you will not feel indifferent to the state of your perishing fellow-sinners around you. ”

“ You may frame a law for yourself; but you cannot oblige the eternal God to judge you by your own inventions. Though works then are to be wrought into judgment, no works performed by a guilty creature, can be the ground of his acceptance with God. ”

“ For no man can be a believer in Christ without loving him—and no one can love him without being his wiling and obedient subject and servant. 'Lovest thou me? said Jesus to Simon Peter. 'Lovest thou me' says Jesus to each of us. 'He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me,' Matth. x. 37. 'If any man,' says one of his apostles, 'love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema maranatha,'—accursed at his coming, 1 Cor. xvi 22. Dost thou love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity? ”

“ His death is generally and deeply lamented, and he will long be remembered for the diligence, activity, and zeal with which he discharged the public and private duties of the ministerial office. He was very generally known as a most laborious and faithful minister of the gospel; and it was evident, That the uncommon exertions which he continually made for the spiritual and temporal welfare of his congregation Sprung from love to the work itself from compassion to perishing sinners.—and from a desire to promote the edification and comfort of those who believed. ”

“ They are works of charity, and labours of love, performed to the disciples or brethren of Jesus for his sake. Jesus considers them as done to himself; therefore they must be such works as are done for his sake. The performance of these works is the evidence of the operation of certain principles: the want of the works proves the absence of these principles.—When you speak of doing any thing for the sake of another, you mean, that you do it from love to him. ”

“ From this short memoir, it is abundantly manifest, that the Church has lost a most diligent, zealous, and successful minister; which loss, while it must interest all the lovers of Zion, must press in a particular manner on the affections and feelings of the bereaved widow and congregation. Let all in the ministry be admonished by his death, diligently to discharge the duties of that office. ”

“ In dispensing the word of life, he took great pleasure in illustrating the excellence and blessed effects of the ordinances of religion, in urging the faithful cultivation of the various graces of the Spirit, and in enforcing the numerous duties of the Christian life. ”

“ I allow it involves myself as well as you. Nay, there is not among men one exception; for ‘There is none righteous, no, not one,' Psalm liii 1—3. ‘All have sinned and come short of the glory of God,’ Rom. ”

“ Each individual amongst them, both ministers and people, should feel and should act, both in public and in private life, as if the; character of the whole depended on his conduct. Let ministers exert themselves more and more, to promote true godliness in their respective flocks. Let heads of families attend to the cultivation of religion in their domestic circles. Let the young vie with one another, who shall be most distinguished for amiableness of disposition, and tor their zeal and activity in promoting the cause of the Redeemer. Let all classes cultivate a spirit ”

“ He and another young man, in intimate companion bf his own, built a turf house in the fields, in which they often met for religious conversation and prayer, and often spent whole nights in these pious and improving exercises. ”