A truly gracious praying frame is utterly inconsistent with the love of, or reserve for, any sin."-OWEN

OCTOBER 8.

"Thy will be done.”—Luke xi. 2.

"This is the strongest and most binding reason that can be used to a Christian mind, which hath resigned itself to be governed by that rule, to have the will of God' for its law. Whatsoever is required of it upon that warrant, it cannot refuse. Although it cross a man's own humour, or his private interest, yet if his heart be subjected to the will of God, he will not stand with him in any thing. One word from God, I will have it so,' silences all, and carries it against all op position."-LEIghton.

OCTOBER 9.

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."-Heb. xi. 1.

"Beloved, it is your mercy to believe that this faith is of inestimable value. It is for use-it is for every-day existence-it is for turmoil and trial-it is for victory; for 'this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.' To live on Christ, is to live above the world -it is to live above our sins-it is to live unto God."-EVANS.

OCTOBER 10.

"The new man."-Col. iii. 10.

"That obedience that springs from faith is a transforming obedience, it mightily alters and changes a man, from impurity

to purity, from sin to sanctity, from unrighteousness to righteousness, from earthly-mindedness to heavenly mindedness, from pride to humility, from hypocrisy to sincerity, &c. Such as please themselves with this, that they are no changelings, and that they are whatever they were, these are still in the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity."BROOKS.

OCTOBER 11.

"O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?"—Rom vii. 24.

"The great school in which we learn the painful, but needed and wholesome, lesson of our own perfect weakness and insufficiency to keep ourselves, is in the body of sin which we daily bear about with

us. It was here Paul learned this lesson. In this school, and in this way, did the great apostle of the Gentiles learn that the most holy, deeply taught, useful, privileged, and even inspired saint of God, was in himself nothing but the most perfect weakness and sin."-WINSLOW,

OCTOBER 12.

"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth." Matt. vi. 19.

"I had rather enter into the meaning of this saying, and be in full possession of the spirit, than be lord of the universe."-ADAM.

OCTOBER 13.

"Draw water out of the wells of salvation." Isa. xii. 3.

"What are the wells of salvation but God, and Jesus Christ, and his Spirit, and the graces of the Spirit, and the ordinances of God? These are the wells of salvation. If you bring but little buckets, you will get but little water; if you bring large buckets, you will get a large supply of water. If you bring but little faith, you will receive but little from Christ; but if you bring a strong faitha large and strong bucket-O how much refreshing and soul satisfaction might you receive!"-NALTON.