vague, distant, indifferent, easy person of the past, the present, or the future, that you think of Him; or is He more real and perceptible to you than the men and women around you—more in your thoughts than any one else—more feared than your earthly masters and rulers—more implicitly obeyed than your most revered earthly superior—more looked to than your most substantial earthly benefactor—more loved than the dearest earthly object of your affections? Is Christ in you the worship of your heart, the motive of your life, the centre and summit of your hopes? If He stood visibly before you now, and asked, “Do you _think_ of Me;” and if your hearts, your thoughts, your lives, rather than your lips, had to answer, would you be able to say honestly, “Yea, LORD, Thou knowest that I do think of Thee?” It is well, brethren, to put this preliminary question, and try to reply to it. It is well to consider whether you do think at all of Christ, before you are further asked _what_ you think of Him; because, if you are led to feel that you do _not_ think of Him, you will be ready to administer reproof to yourselves, and that, by GOD’S grace, calling you to a better mind may spare you the rebuke of Christ; because, too, if you do think of Him righteously, though imperfectly and partially, you will be enabled to look up with humble hope of indulgent consideration from Him who was the Instructor of the simple and the unwise; and because, _feeling_ your thought, you will be anxious to enlarge, and deepen, and direct it, and so will strive to provide yourselves with a right and full answer to the question, _What_ think ye of Christ? To do this fully, is not the work of a mere half hour. You must take out of GOD’S Word, each description, each title of Christ; you must ask for the Holy Spirit’s special aid in its examination; you must survey it and search it, and survey and search yourselves, and then with earnest desire to know Him, and to know yourselves, with long meditation and much pains, you must find out your _heart’s_, your _life’s_ answer to the question, What think I of this view, this title of Christ? Then, after profiting by this answer, enlarging what is right, correcting what is wrong, filling up what is wanting, you must go on to another and another description and title, _keeping in mind all the while those that have been already received_. Thus, and thus only, will you come to _know_ Christ rightly, and so to _think_ rightly of Him, advancing step by step, growing day by day, till you reach His actual presence, and see Him as He is, and are audibly approved by Him as of the perfect stature and fulness of a man in Christ Jesus. To help you in this most profitable, spiritual exercise, let me suggest to you how to pursue some few of its particulars.