love—the Person of Jesus, as our representative in heaven for us—with many precious promises, and God’s faithfulness to them. This brings comfort into the mind, overcomes our fear, and bears us up in trouble. When Satan is permitted to harrass the mind, by insinuating the probability of our fall into awful errors, we can answer, it is written, “He shall guide into all truth.” Thus we overcome by the word of our testimony.—But as it was necessary the pitchers should be broken, that the light appear, and our Lord Jesus is called the breaker—so, by his Spirit’s gracious teaching we are broke off from the world—“Come out from among them.”—We are broke from a form of Godliness—from false views of God, and often from the esteem of the world—from trusting in the Law—from our own righteousness—and from carnal professors, who have only a name to live, while they are dead! So we are broke in pieces with a sense of guilt, with groaning under the wrath of God, the fears of death, the curse of the Law, and the bondage we feel. God approves of this, as the effect of the work of his own Spirit—“a broken and a contrite heart, O God thou wilt not despise;”—thou hast sore broken us in the place of Dragons.—When peace is proclaimed to the soul, and we are led to see Jesus as a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. When the matter becomes personal, and we can say, “’Twere you my sins, my cruel sins, his chief tormentors were!”—this lays the sinner low, while his heart is dissolved in tears, and love, and blood—“They shall look on him whom they have pierced, and mourn.”—When our souls are led to reflect on our sins and daily infirmities, with the long-suffering of God to us, the mercy and truth he hath shewn us, the way he hath led us, the great things he has done for us, the deliverances he has wrought, the prayers he has answered, the appearances we have had of his faithfulness and love—these things melt the heart, overcome the soul, lay us in the dust, and create the most delightful thoughts of Jesus, so that we can give him the glory due to his name.—Here the Lord overcomes all our evil with good, and fulfils this promise, “They shall loathe themselves in their own sight, for their iniquities, when I am pacified towards them, saith the Lord.”—Thus the light the Lord has given us appears in the above manner—life, faith, hope, love, repentance, godly sorrow, the fear of God, and Bible humility—these implanted in the mind by the Spirit’s gracious inhabitation, are clearly seen by us at times, and, perhaps, always by others. This light appears conspicuous in ministers and saints in general, by the various trials with which they are exercised. Whatever graces or light the Holy Ghost is pleased to communicate to us is sure to be tried—“the Lord trieth the righteous;” hence Job says, “When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.” Those very afflictions and trials that drive the hypocrite from his profession, make the saint shine brighter. St.