Jeremiah 41:18

REFLECTIONS

READER! the great relief to a Child of God, when turning over continued pages in the word of God in relating man's depravity, is the view of Jesus, who was manifested, as an apostle saith, to take away our sin, and in him is no sin. Precious Lord Jesus! I would ask, both for myself and Reader! what could support the soul, under the consciousness of one common nature of evil, but the consciousness also, that thy people have one common nature of righteousness in thee? As by one man's disobedience, many were made sinners; so by the obedience of one, many were made righteous. Every way, and by every view, to which the mind directs her attention, in Zedekiah, Ishmael, and all the residue of the people, we see nothing but evil; and in ourselves feel the breaking out of the same. But in thee, blessed Jesus, we behold a fulness of grace and truth; and those graces abounding for thy people. Oh! Lord! give both to him that writes, and to him that reads, if it be thy blessed will, the needed grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ; that of thy fulness we may all receive and grace for grace. Amen!