Dear brethren, make use, I beseech you, of these brief and plain suggestions, to ascertain your past thoughts of Christ, to rebuke them, if they have been low and partial, to lead you on to perfection. Beware of separating what GOD has joined together, of recognising in Him who is the Son of GOD, only the son of David. Never allow yourselves to joy over salvation without remembering judgment. Dwell not on the Deliverer apart from the Purchaser; appropriate not promises, if you do not observe commands; count not on human sympathy, if you do not deserve Divine compassion; expect not heavenly blessings, without using appointed means. You do not think of the Christ of the Bible, unless every phase of His character there represented, has its due place in your thoughts. And so your thoughts are unacceptable to Him, and unprofitable to you; they are neither worship, nor helps to salvation; they do not recognise Him at all, because they do not recognise Him altogether; they prompt to no service, because they prompt not to all. An imperfect Christ is no Christ. A Christian who regards Him as imperfect, is no Christian. Oh, may He who has given Christ to be our All in all, enable us to recognise and incline us to serve, and love, and depend on Him, as indeed our All in all! SERMON III. THE CHURCHMAN’S THOUGHTS ABOUT DISSENTERS. ST. LUKE, XVII., 16. “And he was a Samaritan.” THE people known as Samaritans had their origin from certain Gentile tribes sent into the country of Samaria early in the Babylonish captivity. They were of course idolaters, and they continued to be mere idolaters, until, being troubled with lions, which had become very numerous in Samaria, and understanding that these were let loose among them by the god of the country (for various countries in their creed had various gods) to punish them for neglect of his worship, they applied to King Shalmanezer for one of the captive priests to teach them the Levitical law. Then they began to combine with their own superstition the acknowledgment and ceremonial service of Jehovah. “They feared the LORD,” we read, “and served their own gods.”