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yet in me there is help that you have found 
joy and peace in believing, and a good hope, 
through grace, to enable you to go on your 
way rejoicing.' 
" This, my friends, appears to be the 
purport of that part of the text now under 
consideration; and, if correct, does it not 
loudly say to every sincere professor ' Up 
and be doing, that the Lord may be with 
thee ?' Ban-en fig-trees will not be permitted 
to stand in Christ's vineyard. We should be 
instant, in season and out of season, exhorting 
with all long-suffering, never weary of our 
work of faith and labour of love ; but should 
strive by word and deed to convince sinners of 
their danger, that they may turn from their 
evil ways. Thus doing, we shall comply 
with the commands of our Master, procure for 
ourselves an increase of happiness, and illus- 
trate the promise of the Apostle, that * he 
which converteth a sinner from the evil of his 
ways, shall save a soul from death, and hide 
a multitude of sins.' 
" 3. Encouragement. ' Let him that is 
athirst come.' 
" It is one of the glorious attributes of the 
