NOVEMBER 15.

"Press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”—Phil. iii. 14.

"God never promised to save by miracles those that would not save themselves."-HENRY.

NOVEMBER 16.

"My wounds stink and are corrupt, because of my foolishness."-Ps. xxxviii. 5.

"Sin is the wound of the soul, which must be washed by the tears of repentance, cleansed by the blood of Christ, and healed by the Spirit of the Holy One."-BP. HORNE.

NOVEMBER 17.

"Behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you..... yea, what indignation, yea, what fear."-2 Cor. vii. 11.

"True repentance, among other companions, is always attended with these three-carefulness, indignation, and fear." -SHEFFIELD.

NOVEMBER 18.

"I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments."-Ps. cxix. 106.

"This would be somewhat like true repentance. But take heed of a mock repentance, lest, as true repentance meets with a true pardon, thy mock repentance should be answered with a mock pardon; as Tertullian excellently saith: There

be some that say their heart is good; they fear God, grieve for sin, though they yet fall into sin.' They can live in sin, nevertheless, notwithstanding his mercies, and promises, and pardoning grace." -SHEFFIELD.

"Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mis. chief."-Prov. xxviii. 14.

"It is the truest magnanimity and heroic courage, in our spiritual warfare, to tremble at the least iniquity."-GIBBON.

NOVEMBER 20.

"For this cause we ..... do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding."—Col. i. 9.

"There is no learning like that we get

upon our knees: that is the only saving knowledge which we fetch from heaven.” -VEAL.

NOVEMBER 21.

"I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them." John xvii. 8.

"He that was his Father's counsellor in making his laws, and his messenger in publishing them, is best able to make us understand them. As it is our duty to hear him, so it is his business to instruct us; only, beside the use of all other means, we must look to him for his teaching. He only can make all means effectual; and none learn as they should but they that learn of him."-VEAL.

NOVEMBER 22.

"When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them."-Isa. xli. 17.

"Lord, make us as hungry as we are empty, and as thirsty as we are dry. Lord, if thou deal with us according to our sense of need, we will get little; but, Lord, we plead thou wilt deal with us according to our real need and thy royal bounty, and then we will be right enough." -WILLISON.

NOVEMBER 23.

"I have given them thy word."-John xvii. 14, "I am the light of the world.”—John viii. 12.

"The Lord Jesus Christ is such a teacher as is beyond all teachers. He can give the spirit of wisdom and revelation,