P. S.--It is very interesting and instructive to compare the teaching of Paul and James--two divinely inspired apostles--on the subject of "works." Paul utterly repudiates _law-works_. James jealously insists upon _life works_. If this fact be seized, all difficulty vanishes; and the divine harmony is clearly seen. Many have failed to do this, and hence have been much perplexed by the seeming difference between Roman iv. 5, and James ii. 24. We need not say there is the most perfect and beautiful harmony. When Paul says, "To him that _worketh not_, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness," he refers to law-works. When James says, "Ye see then how that _by works_ a man is justified, and not by faith only," he refers to life-works. This is abundantly confirmed by the two cases adduced by James in proof of his thesis, namely, Abraham offering up his son and Rahab concealing the spies. If you abstract faith from these cases, they were bad works. Look at them as the fruit of faith, and they were life-works. How marked is the far-seeing wisdom of the Holy Spirit in all this! He foresaw the use that would be made of this passage; and hence, instead of selecting works abstractedly good, He takes up two from the history of four thousand years, which, if they were not the fruit of faith, were bad works. "THERE IS ONE BODY"[10] Psalm xciii.; 1 Cor. iii. 16, and vi. 19. [10] Notes of an Address delivered in London. These scriptures set forth a truth which I believe to be of cardinal importance to every one of us, individually as well as corporately: the Church as a whole is the temple of God; and every believer is made such as really, as literally, as absolutely as the temple of old in which God dwelt, only, of course, in a different way. He dwells in each individual believer in this room to-day. Mark that fact; ponder it. It is not a question of opinion; it is God's truth. If people do not bow to Scripture, it is of no use to argue with them. The truth presented here is not one about which you may think this or that. _God has a house here on the earth._ Take in that fact, beloved; ponder it. Do not say it is what we _ought_ to be, but what we _are_; and then see the conduct that flows from it; see what becomes God's house: "Holiness becometh Thy house, O Lord, for ever." This is the basis of the truth which underlies all discipline from the time that God had a house on earth. We never hear a word about God dwelling with man until redemption is accomplished. But the moment that Israel is out of Egypt, on the shore of the Red Sea, the first note that falls on our ear from the lips of a redeemed people is: "I will prepare Him a habitation." And the moment the last pin is put into the earthly tabernacle, the glory of God comes down to take up His abode in the midst of His people.