d, who is a God like unto Thee!

4. 'I do also give them a portion of the self-same grace and goodness
that dwells in My Father's heart and Mine.' The self-same grace and
goodness, that is, that My Father and I have shown to them. That is to
say, we shall be made both willing and able to grant to all those men who
have wronged us the very same charter of forgiveness that we have had
granted to us of God. So that at all those times when we stand praying
for forgiveness we shall suspend that prayer till we have first forgiven
all our enemies, and all who have at any time and in any way wronged or
injured us. Even when we had the Communion cup at our lips to-day, you
would have seen us setting it down till we had first gone and been
reconciled to our brother. Yes, my brethren, you are His witnesses that
He has done it. He has taken you into His covenant till He has made you
both able and willing, both willing and able, to grant and to bequeath to
others, all that free, full, and everlasting forgiveness and love that He
has bequeathed to you. Till under the very last and supreme wrong that
your worst enemy can do to you and to yours, you are able and forward to
say: Father, forgive him, for he knows not what he has done. Forgive me
my debts, you will say, as I forgive my debtors. And always, as you
again say and do that, you will on the spot be made a partaker of the
Divine Nature, according to the heavenly Charter, 'I do also give them a
portion of the self-same grace and goodness that dwells in My Father's
heart and in Mine.'

5. 'I do also,' so Mansoul's Magna Charta travels on, 'I do also give,
grant, and bestow upon them freely the world and all that is therein for
their good; yea, I grant them all the benefits of life and of death, and
of things present and things to come.' What a magnificent Charter is
that! 'All things are yours: whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the
world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are
yours.' What a superb Charter! Only, it is too high for us; we cannot
attain to it. Has any human being ever risen to anything like the full
faith, full assurance, and full victory of all that in this life? No;
the thing is impossible! Reason would fall off her throne. The heart of
a man would break with too much joy if he tried to enter into the full
belief of all that. No; it hath not entered into the heart of a still
sinful man what God hath chartered to