“But the trial hurries and frets your own soul.” Perhaps it did so for this very reason, because you thought you was accountable for the event, which no man is, nor indeed can be. Or perhaps, because you was off your guard; you was not watchful over your own spirit. But this is no reason for disobeying God. Try again; but try more warily than before. Do good (as you forgive) _not seven times only; but until seventy times seven_. Only be wiser by experience: attempt it every time more cautiously than before. Be more humbled before God, more deeply convinced, that of yourself you can do nothing. Be more jealous over your own spirit: more gentle and watchful unto prayer. Thus _cast your bread upon the waters, and you shall find it again after many days_. IV. 1. Notwithstanding all these plausible pretences for hiding it, _Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven_. This is the practical application which our Lord himself makes of the foregoing considerations. _Let your light so shine_――Your lowliness of heart, your gentleness and meekness of wisdom: your serious, weighty concern for the things of eternity, and sorrow for the sins and miseries of men: your earnest desire of universal holiness and full happiness in God: your tender good-will to all mankind, and fervent love to your supreme benefactor. Endeavour not to conceal this light, wherewith God hath enlightened your soul: but let it _shine before men_, before all with whom you are, in the whole tenor of your conversation. Let it shine still more eminently in your actions, in your doing all possible good to all men: and in your suffering for righteousness sake, while you _rejoice and are exceeding glad, knowing that great is your reward in heaven_. 2. _Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works_: so far let a Christian be from ever designing, or desiring to conceal his religion. On the contrary, let it be your desire, not to conceal it; not to put the _light under a bushel_. Let it be your care, to place it _on a candlestick, that it may give light to all that are in the house_. Only take heed, not to seek your own praise herein, not to desire any honour to yourselves. But let it be your sole aim, that all, who see your good works, may _glorify your Father which is in heaven_.