In this course of wise and holy discipline, according to our diligence, will be our progress; and proportioned to our progress, will be our reward. Our anxieties, discouragements, and despondencies will be left behind us. We shall go on our way rejoicing. We shall feel a personal interest in the glorious system of Christian redemption. We shall enter daily more and more with satisfaction upon the duty of examining ourselves, “whether we be in the faith:” {37b} and the result of that examination will more and more enable us to see distinctly within our hearts the lineaments of the Christian character. All the tests from Scripture of such a progress will have a clearer application to our spiritual state. Love to God, charity to mankind, preference of divine to merely human objects, fervency in prayer, frequency in meditation, attachment to religious ordinances, self-control in the subjugation of our appetites and passions; and in one word, likeness to Christ, increasing from day to day—will assure us that to reach the gate of salvation we have only to preserve the path which we have chosen. And although, in this advanced state, enjoying “a full assurance of faith and hope,” {38a} we relax nothing of our efforts, and, like St. Paul, “count not ourselves to have apprehended the price of our high calling,” {38b} yet we exclaim triumphantly with the same Apostle: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? In all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” {38c} * * * * * THE END. * * * * * * * * * * GILBERT & RIVINGTON, Printers, St. John’s Square, London. ADVERTISEMENT. _By the same Author_. I. DISSERTATIONS vindicating the CHURCH of ENGLAND in respect to some Essential Points of Polity and Doctrine. II. VINDICATION of the EPISCOPAL or APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION. *** Extracted from the foregoing Work. III. MEMOIR of the LIFE and TIMES of the RIGHT HON. SIR JOHN SINCLAIR, Bart. IV. QUESTIONS ILLUSTRATING the CATECHISM of the CHURCH of ENGLAND. V. QUESTIONS on the ORDERS for MORNING and EVENING PRAYER. VI. An ESSAY on CHURCH PATRONAGE. VII.