Beautiful that Promise, _Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness_, _for they shall be filled_. Such are represented as waiting upon God. Those that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength—and they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. At the Pool of Bethesda they lay till Jesus appears—at the posts of God’s Doors they wait till favour is shewed them—they are admitted to the Inner Court, till faith gathers strength enough to believe in the love of God towards them; and till they can receive into their souls the Atonement this gives peace to the conscience, and joy in God, and this honor have all the saints. This is the New Birth, which you, I trust, know something of experimentally; but darkness will sometimes hide it from you. I must recommend you a sweet text in Job. _Thine age shall be clearer than the noon day—thou shalt shine forth_, _thou shall be clear as the morning_. But this new-making second Birth, and new Creation, is the joint work of the adorable Trinity, and is, of course, property ascribed to each Person, _Remember therefore thy new Creators_. Let Israel rejoice in _them_ that made him. God the Father is called the Father of Christ, the Father of Lights. Of his own will begat he us, with the Word of Truth. He sheds the dew of the Spirit upon us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our Lord. This Work is also attributed to Jesus; he is the Resurrection and the Life—he raiseth up and quickeneth whom he will; and it is by virtue of his Resurrection from the dead that we are begotten again to a lively hope. The blessed and eternal Spirit, the Lord and giver of Life, is also the Author of this New Creation—_Except a man be born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven_. It is the Spirit that quickens; he it is prepares the mind for Christ, then testifies of Christ to the soul. May you, my dear Friend, enjoy much of his testimony, and set to your seal, that _God is true_—and, if I have not tired your patience, let me remind you of another great act of your CREATORS, the completing the Work in a manifestative way, in the glorious Resurrection of the Body, to enjoy endless felicity with the soul. This is what we have in lively hope and earnest expectation; for this we groan—this is the redemption of the purchased Possession. God our covenant Father loved our bodies as well as our souls—the dear Redeemer bought the one as well as the other—he suffered in the body for sins done by the body. The Holy Spirit graciously takes up his abode in the soul, as the earnest of the future inheritance.