+III. The natural and spiritual man are divided from each other by these distinctions+--one has the desire for everlasting life, the other has not. The success of the one perishes with the corruptible life to which it belongs; the success of the other endures for all ages in the world to come.--_J. B. Mozley._ _The Law of Retribution._ I. +We see the justice of God--His bounty and severity.+--His bounty in recompensing men above their deserts; His severity in punishing sinners according to their deserts. II. This doctrine, that we shall drink such as we brew, reap such as we sow, and that men have degrees of felicity or misery answerable to their works, +will make us more careful to avoid sin.+ III. +It serves as a comfort against inequality;+ whereas the wicked flourish and the godly live in contempt, the time shall come when every one shall reap even as he has sown. IV. +It crosses the conceit of those who promise to themselves an impunity from sin and immunity from all the judgments of God,+ notwithstanding they go on in their bad practices.--_Perkins._ Ver. 9. _Against Weariness in Well-doing._--1. There is the prevailing temper of our nature, the love of ease--horror of hard labour. 2. The reluctance and aversion are greater when the labour is enjoined by extraneous authority--the imperative will of a foreign power. 3. In the service of God there is a good deal that does not seem for ourselves. 4. There is a principle of false humility--what signifies the little I can do? 5. The complaint of deficient co-operation. 6. In the cause of God the object and effect of well-doing are much less palpable than in some other provinces of action. 7. Yet the duty expressly prescribed is an absolute thing, independently of what men can foresee of its results. 8. There is the consciousness and pleasure of pleasing God. 9. What relief has man gained by yielding to the weariness? 10. Our grave accountableness is for making a diligent, patient, persevering use of the means God has actually given us.--_J. Foster._ _Apathy one of our Trials._--1. Because, as in everything else, so in our spiritual growth, we are inevitably disappointed in much of our expectations. 2. The temptation to weariness is no sign at all that the man so tempted is not a true servant of God, though this very often is the first thought that enters the mind. It is no sin to feel weary; the sin is to be weary--that is, to let the feeling have its way and rule our conduct. 3. We expect a kind of fulness of satisfaction in God's service which we do not get nearly so soon as we fancy that we shall. 4. You are quite mistaken to your belief that former prayers and former resolutions have been in vain and have produced no fruit because no fruit is visible. 5. In due season we shall find that it has been worth while to persevere in trying to serve Christ.--_Dr. Temple._ _Well-doing._