1 Timothy 6:21

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READER! think what a lovely family that is of the all lovely, and all loving Jesus, which considers all the members as mutually engaged, and everlastingly supposed to be actuated by one spirit, for the general and complete happiness of the whole. Oh! if masters would thus consider servants, and servants masters, there could be no schism of the body, but all would study each other's happiness, and have the same care one for another. And, surely, if anything under grace can tend to the promotion of this great end, the consciousness of a dying, sinful, sorrowful world, from which we are hourly departing, and from which as we brought nothing in, we can carry nothing out, would be enough to induce these blessed effects.

But, oh! precious Jesus! It is thou Lord who must both go before, and guide in this, and every path, which thy redeemed have to follow. Blessed and glorious Potentate! Oh! what a good confession didst thou witness before many witnesses! Lord! grant to all thy servants to keep the commandment of the same confession, without spot, and unrebukable, until thy appearing. Jesus will shortly come. He, and He alone, will show, as the only visible Jehovah, who is the blessed and only Potentate, King of kings, and Lord of lords! Till then may every knee bow, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Amen.