It is well, I say, because it is hopeful, it will, by grace, lead you farther; but if in your heart and soul you recognise GOD, and believe in a Saviour, then I am sure that you will not adduce what I have mentioned as specimens of the works of GOD. Acknowledgments that GOD ought to be served, pledges of service, they may be, but works they are not. And yet some, perhaps, would urge, “When the question was put, ‘What must we do that we may work the works of GOD?’ did not CHRIST answer, ‘This is the work of GOD, that ye believe on Him whom He hath sent”? and, say they, “Does not this show that literal working, as we work in and for the world, is not what GOD demands; that it is rather a mental assent, an entertaining and exercising of feelings, a believing, a thankful, a sanctifying remembrance of CHRIST’S work; a trust in it, a carefulness to do nothing that will render it ineffectual for our salvation, that is required of us? Surely, CHRIST has done the work Himself; we have but to accept it thankfully, and wait for it faithfully and holily.” Now, my brethren, it may be easily shown that this is not believing in Him whom GOD hath sent. To believe in Him is to embrace Him as the Author, and Finisher, and Giver of Salvation; to be assured that salvation can only be had from Him, in Him, and on His terms; to learn of Him, therefore—and, of course, of His Apostles and Evangelists after Him, for to them even clearer teaching was intrusted—what are the terms, and then to fulfil them resolutely and precisely. Do you need that I should quote the actual words, the chapter, and verse, in which CHRIST, through the Spirit, tells us, that He has redeemed us to Himself; that He has purchased us for a peculiar people zealous of good works; that He has left us a definite work to do against His return; that on His return He will judge and reward us by our works; that He will condemn as workers against Him those who have not worked for Him; that it is vain to acknowledge Him and not do the things that He bids; that He has left us an example that we should follow His steps, in that He fulfilled all righteousness, and went about doing good, and proposed to Himself, as that which must be done, and done heartily and without delay, the works and the manifesting of the works of GOD, and made it His meat and drink to do the Father’s will; that He has said plainly, that whosoever would not take up the cross and follow Him could not be His disciple. O wo to those who dare to say this means: Sit still in worldliness, and look at and admire Him doing the labour and pursuing the path of godliness—that He has attached all His promises to certain deeds; that He is ever represented as judging, not what men have thought and felt, but what they have done and become by doing; that by the Spirit He has commanded “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;” and “Whether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of GOD;” and “He that