What can a God of mercy say more to us, than he has already promised to every returning penitent?

I say to the sinner, "God be praised, thou art yet on mercy's ground. Directly thou art enabled by grace to cast down the arms of thy rebellion, as soon as heartfelt repentance has duly visited thy mind, and thou yieldest thyself up to the Lord, his tender compassion will be exhibited before thee, and he who saves to the uttermost, will never reject any soul that cries for mercy through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.""

When the Lord says

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come unto me," I leave a world of sin behind; I spring into the arms of infinite mercy and rejoice in it with supreme delight.

Unless my God have mercy upon my infirmities, I shall undo myself in the very performance of my duties.

Thanks be to God for the sweet word Mercy; I would not part with it for innumerable worlds.

The door of mercy is closed to none but those who shut it against themselves.

Holy poverty is heavenly riches.

We look most effectually to the Lord, when we feel ourselves helpless and empty.

God enriches our hearts with countless blessings, and thus teaches us that inexhaustible treasures are laid up for believers in Christ Jesus; but let me be ever so much enriched to-day, I shall still praise the Lord if I feel my poverty

to-morrow.

I can never give God all the glory, till I see that in myself dwelleth no good thing.

Whatever pertains to true religion, comes to us while humbled under a sense of our spiritual poverty.

There is no contradiction in the assertion, that we may fear and yet be bold; that we may fight with holy apprehension of being vanquished, and yet fight in the strength of him who has promised never to "leave nor forsake" us.

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I do not doubt the design of God to save his people, but my doubt is sometimes, whether I am really of their number-whether there is that genuine evidence of grace in my heart, which enables me to say in full assurance of faith, "my beloved is mine and I am his."

I never knew a man of a brighter mind than the poet Cowper. Yet he had an idea, as contrary to truth as possible, that he was rejected of God. No man ever possessed a more lovely, Christian spirit, or more earnestly desired to be like his Saviour. But he was overwhelmed by the notion, that though he would come to Christ, he could not. O how great must have been his surprise when heaven opened to his departed spirit, when Jesus smiled his tears away, and when he heard the blessed words, "enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."

The evidence of Christians is generally clouded by trifling.

Could I but see more of the mind of God in me, it would remove all doubts as to his mind towards me.

SECTION XVI.

God.

I CANNOT Comprehend an infinite God, yet I can form no idea of a God that is not infinite.

As well might I stretch out my hand, and try to touch the heavens above; as well might I attempt to walk upon the sea, and measure its depths, as endeavour to fathom those deep things of God which pass all understanding. The highest angel in heaven would be overblessed, if God were to bless him with all the knowledge of divine perfections which he could communicate.

Before I can be happy in God, I must have that knowledge of his attributes brought home to my mind, whereby I can so delight in his goodness and excellency, as to say with the psalmist, "Thou O God art the long for."

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Let us not inquire where God is in the regions above, but whether we can recognise his presence in our families, in our churches, in our hearts.

Millions of thoughts have I had in my mind which I have forgotten, but God never forgets one single thought, of all the intelligent beings he ever created.

There is but one, and there can be but one independently holy Being, and this is the infinitely holy God. All the angels are, and will ever be holy from God; no creature has in himself essential holiness--it is all of divine communication.

I desire to have (Lord keep me in it) that solemn thought that God is here. I know that heaven cannot be the only place in which he dwells; wherever I am, there he surrounds me. I would fain be filled with a sense of the majesty of a present God-I want to remember that I am compassed about by Thee, O king of saints! Under this impression, how should I feel in prayer; how should I feel in reading the word of life; how should I feel when I have immor