of God's faithful
people--and the exultant faith of St. Paul which finds no difficulty in
the experience at all. Again, we do well to observe that among the
forces enumerated by St. Paul which cannot tear us out of the hand of
God, he does not include our own wills, and we could not even conceive
him so including them. Once again, we take note how 'the love of
Christ' (ver. 35) is resolved (ver. 39) into the 'love of God in Christ
Jesus.' Christ's love is God's love, as Christ is truly proper and
essential to the being of God, His own very Son.

These words, I say, need very little comment, but they thrill our souls
as hardly any other words of St. Paul. They are the real summary of
this epistle, and show us how the glorious apostle of Christian liberty
would have us view our life. We are not to build the edifice of a life
which at the top is to be within sight of God. We are to start from
God who from eternity and all along has been beforehand with us: in His
external personal love predestinating, creating, calling, pardoning,
holding, and keeping us {326} in continual growth for eternal glory.
And the one power of religion is therefore faith, that faculty by which
we look continually out of ourselves, and starting from God, committing
ourselves wholly to God, raise the fabric of life, in the community of
a true human brotherhood, upon the secure basis of the love of Him who
created us, and will satisfy utterly the being which He has given us.
This is the summary lesson of the great epistle.

[1] Ps. xliv. 22.

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_A Series of Simple Expositions_

_of_

_Portions of the New Testament_,

BY THE

RIGHT REV. CHARLES GORE, D.D.,

LORD BISHOP OF WORCESTER.

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THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
THE EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS.
THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.
Vol. I. cap. i-viii.
Vol. II. cap. ix-xvi, with Appendices.

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THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH. Four Lectures delivered in the Cathedral
Church of St. Asaph.

CONTENTS:--I. The Mission of the Church.--II. Unity within the Church
of England.--III. The Relation of the Church to Independent and
Hostile Opinion.--IV. The Mission of the Church in Society.--Appended
Notes.

'It is a twofold work--to sanctify what can be hallowed, to pass
judgement on that whic