most inclined to peace, and most yielding in order to it.”—BP. PATRICK. MARCH 30. "Blessed be the Most High God." "That is, Praised be the Most High God. When God blesseth man he bestows benefits upon him. When man blesseth God he then praiseth him for his benefits."--BP. PATRICK. MARCH 31. "To this man will I look, even to him that is poor, and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word."-Isa. lxvi. 2. "There are two choice mercies 1st, To have a broken heart for sin. 2d, To have a heart broken off sin." Ꭰ Canaan's Flowings. APRIL 1. "Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ."-1 Cor. i. 8. "If love find fault, it is that there may be no fault found."-" God, on this ground, finds fault with his people, that his people may be without fault." Canaan's Flowings. APRIL 2. "Oh, how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day."-Ps. cxix. 97. "The reading of the Scriptures is the terror of devils."--LUTHER. APRIL 3. "Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me."-Ps. cxxxix. 23, 24. "Search thy heart and thy way, that thou mayst find out all; and what thou canst not find, pray that the Lord may find for thee." "Leave no corruption, which Satan may sit and brood upon."CARMICHAEL. APRIL 4. "Submit yourselves therefore to God." "We are, with all silence and quietness of spirit, to submit to God's ways, and not to fret. Believing can ease us-disputing cannot."-RUTHERFORD. APRIL 5. "God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit." -2 Thess. ii. 13. "Sanctification is a progressive conformity of the whole man to the divine nature."-WINSLOW. APRIL 6. "If then ye be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God."-Col. iii. 1. "Let us seek to know Christ more, to have more spiritual and enlarged comprehensions of his glory, to drink deeper into his love, to imbibe more of his spirit, and to conform more closely to his example."-WINSLOW. APRIL 7. All things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive."-Matt. xxi. 22. "No man dare ask of God so much as he is ready to give, and willing to give." ---LUTHER. APRIL 8. No "Why stand ye here all the day idle? ... man hath hired us. . . . Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive."-Matt. xx. 6, 7. "The love of God doth not know what it is to be idle, and idlers do not know what it is to love God."-Canaan's Flowings. |