These, be they many or few, will then receive their prize from Him who died for them, who has made them what they are, and completes in heaven what first by conscience, then by His Spirit, He began here. Surely they were despised on the earth by the world; both by the open sinners, who thought their scrupulousness to be foolishness, and by such pretenders to God's favour as thought it ignorance. But, in reality, they had received from their Lord the treasures both of wisdom and of knowledge, though men knew it not; and they then will be acknowledged by Him before all creatures, as heirs of the glory prepared for them before the beginning of the world. [1] Eccles. xii. 13. [2] Rom. xii. 2. [3] 1 Cor. vii. 19. [4] Phil. iv. 8. [5] James ii. 10. [6] 2 Pet. i. 5-7. [7] John xiv. 21. [8] Matt. v. 19. [9] John vi. 46. [10] John iii. 21. [11] John vii. 17. [12] John xv. 23. [13] John viii. 19. [14] 1 John ii. 23. [15] 2 John 9. [16] 2 Cor. iv. 4. [17] Luke i. 6. [18] Matt. i. 19. [19] Luke ii. 25. [20] John i. 47. [21] Luke xxiii. 50. [22] Acts x. 2. [23] Acts xiii. [24] Acts xvii. [25] John iv. 3, 7. [26] Luke i. 6. [27] Luke xv. 7. [28] Prov. viii. 17, 20. [29] Luke xvi. 10. [30] Mark iv. 25. [31] Eph. v. 14. [32] John i. 12. [33] Gal. vi. 7 [34] Acts xxiii. 1. [35] Rom. x. 8. [36] Zech. iii. 4. SERMON XV. Sudden Conversions. "_By the grace of God I am what I am: and His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain._"--1 Cor. xv. 10.