"it very strictly. Your language will be "This "commandment is positively enjoined by my Lord "and Judge, and I must obey it, if I would prove my "love to him, or escape condemnation at the last day.' "Finally, read the Scriptures with a full purpose of "heart, not merely to learn what they require of you, "but faithfully to practise it, through God's blessed "assistance every day of your life. Not every one "that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into "the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will "of my Father.'Not the hearers of the law are 66 just before God; but the doers of the law shall be justified.' (w) If you read the Scriptures carelessly "or merely from custom, or rather from a spirit of 66 curiosity than from anxiety to profit by them, and "to grow in grace; you do not read them as you "ought to read the word of your Maker. You do not "read them like a person solicitous above all things to "obtain through Christ the Kingdom of Heaven; and "conscious it will be bestowed by Christ on those "only, who strive according to their power to learn "from the Scriptures the way of his commandments, "and faithfully to walk in it, by his help, unto death.” Believe me, dear Friend, Unalterably yours. (w) Matt. vii. 21. Rom. ii. 13. END OF THE LETTERS ON THE EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY. |