The Acts, the Epistles, the Apocalypse, form a second division of divine tracts explanatory of the Gospels—or illustrative of the impressions and effects produced by them upon the hearts and minds of Christ’s earliest followers—or inculcatory of the glorious doctrines of the evangelical revelation in their practical bearings on human characters and consciences—or poetically prophetic of things to come in the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ—a Divine hand in them opening a window upon the scenes of futurity, some of which strike the heart with terror, others of which make it leap for joy. This collection of tracts forming the New Testament, or New Covenant of man’s redemption, it is the duty of every one of us diligently and devoutly to examine; not simply taking it up by fragments, by little bits, by pieces torn out of their proper places, and without any respect to the connection in which they stand; nor studying it chiefly through the medium of other books, whether paraphrases or commentaries, or through the medium of sermons, lectures, or other modes of oral instruction. Let the Divine tracts be studied themselves. Let them not only be read from time to time, chapter by chapter alone, but sometimes let them be read throughout continuously, Gospel by Gospel, Epistle by Epistle, so that an impression, complete and distinct, of each Evangelist’s history and each Apostolic letter, may be left upon the memory. Above all, let them not be read cursorily, in haste, as one might read a novel, but slowly, patiently, thoughtfully, weighing word by word, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph; and with all this reading and pondering, let there be combined earnest prayer to the great Author of revelation, that he would open the reader’s eyes to see the riches of his own comprehensive word.