But let not those who are of the “household of faith” be self-confident! “By the grace of GOD, we are what we are!” And let the consciousness of our sinful neglect stir us up to pray for the fuller restoration of the Church’s grace to us Her degenerate children. It is of little value to believe in a Priesthood, without we _use_ it. May GOD forgive His Priests and people for their joint forgetfulness of their many unearthly privileges!—the very belief whereof seemed a short time since almost dying away from very disuse! Of a truth, we of the English Church are blessed beyond others, would we but apprehend our privileges! Brought nigh, as we are, to our LORD CHRIST, with such abundant mercy and undeserved! If we come short of plenary grace in HIM, what shall we dare to plead in the Day of account? “What manner of persons ought we to be?” for we have “come unto the City of the Living GOD, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of Angels; to the general Assembly and Church of the first-born enrolled in heaven!—to GOD the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the perfected just; and to JESUS the MEDIATOR of the New Testament, and to the blood of sprinkling!”—Would that the feeling of CHRIST’S first disciples were ours! “LORD, to whom else shall we go? THOU hast the words of eternal life.” Would that we were more thankful to GOD for the present blessings of His Church! Would that we used our Prayers, and tried them well, before we talked of amending them; or understood our holy offices, instead of seeking to shorten them!—Have we now, in this late century, to seek out new faith—some new instructor or guide? GOD deliver us from this blindness! May HE help His people to see what treasures of unknown grace lie hidden in His Holy Church among us! “We have all and abound.” Let us only “give diligence” thereto, that when CHRIST cometh, “we may be found of Him in peace, without spot and blameless!” “LORD, I have loved the Habitation of THY House, and the place where THINE honour dwelleth!”—So holy David could say from the very depths of his soul: and shall we who are brought into a holier place, “the Habitation of GOD through the SPIRIT,” be forbidden to give utterance to as ardent a love—a devotion as deep and pure?—