When we read this petition as the words of Christ in the flesh, how much strength do we derive from the thought that, if in the long waiting of our souls for the Lord's manifestation, we find Jesus exercised in the same before us, and therefore are in this way also made in conformity to our glorious Head; so by those exercises of the Son of God, we cannot but know that he takes interest in all that we encounter.

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