comprehend God? And who am I, be able to make you understand the by any dull words of mine? But you understand it. The Spirit of will shew you the glory of God. B ceedeth from the Father, he will sh the glory of the Father is like. B ceedeth from the Son, he will shew glory of the Son is like. Because stantial, co-equal, and co-eternal wit and the Son, he will shew you that the Father and the Son is not the power; but a moral and spiritual gl of having a perfectly glorious, noble, character. And unless he shews you never be thoroughly good men. For thing that men are always trying, m be like God. And yet, not a stran it is a sign that we all came from get no rest till we are come back to God calls us all to be his children, an A blessed thing it is, if we try to be God but a sad and fearful thing, i like some false god of our own inven it is. It was so even among the Whatsoever a man fancies God to be will try himself to be like. So if v

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extreme to mark what is done amiss, or

rely on his own rights, then you will do med you will be extreme to mark what is

you will stand severely on your rights; ow stern and harsh, unfeeling to your nd workmen, and fond of shewing your - for the sake of shewing it. But if you at the glory of the Father, Son, and it is all one; and that it is a loving you believe that such as Jesus Christ is, is Father, gracious and merciful, slow to 1 of great kindness, and repenting him l; if you believe that your Father in perfect, just because he sendeth his sun n the evil and on the good, and sendeth he just and on the unjust, and is good to ankful and the evil-if you believe this, en you will be good to the unthankful and ; you will be long-suffering and tender; hers, good masters, good neighbours; and aracters will become patient, generous, forruly noble, truly godlike. And all because ieve the Athanasian Creed in spirit and

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se manner, if you believe that Jesus Christ a perfect Son; if you fancy that he has any

at his Wothon's will. that he has anv work

but what his Father gives him to do, who has committed all things into his hands; that he knows anything but what his Father sheweth him, who sheweth him all things, because he loveth him; then you will be tempted to wish for power and honour of your own; to become ambitious, self-willed, vain, and disobedient to your parents.

But if you believe that Jesus is a perfect Son, all that you would wish your son to be to you, and millions of times more; and if you believe that that very thing is Christ's glory; that his glory consists in being a perfect Son, perfectly obedient, having no will or wish but his Father's; then will you, by thus seeing Christ in spirit and in truth, see how beautiful and noble it is to be good sons; and you will long to try to be good sons; and what you long for, and try for, you will surely be, in God's good time; for he has promised,—‘Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled.' And all through believing the Athanasian Creed? All? Yes, all. But will not the Holy Spirit teach us, without the Athanasian Creed?

The Holy Spirit will teach us. Must teach us, if we are really to learn one word of all this in spirit and in truth. But whether the Holy Spirit does teach us, will depend, I fear, very much upon whether we pray for him; and whether we pray

and what he is like; and that, again, asian Creed will tell us.

o home with God's blessing. Remember as the Son is, such is the Father, and e Holy Ghost. Pray to be made good fter the likeness of The Father, from ery fatherhood in heaven and earth is good sons, after the likeness of God The

good and holy spirits, after the likeness Holy Spirit; and you will be such at last, good time, as far as man can become like r you will be praying for the Holy Spirit and he will hear you, and come to you, le with you, and all will be well.

SERMON XXII.

THE TORMENT OF FEAR.

(First Sunday after Trinity).

1 JOHN iv. 16-18.

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us.

God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

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blessings; a blessing which all long for, but all do not find; and that is a happy death. All wish to die happily; even bad men. Like Balaam when he was committing a great sin, they can say, 'Let me die the death of the righteous, ' and let my last end be like his.' But meanwhile, like Balaam, they find it too hard to live the life of the righteous, which is the only way to die the death of the righteous. But something within them (if false preachers will but leave them alone) tells them that they will not succeed. Reason and common sense tell them so: for how can a man expect to get to a place