his love and favour, and to rejoice
in the light of his countenance!

62. But here all imagination fails:--we can form no idea of that bliss
which may be communicated to us by such a near approach to the source of
all beauty and all good:--we must content ourselves with believing,
"that it is what mortal eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath
it entered into the heart of man to conceive." The crown of all our joys
will be, to know that we are secure of possessing them for ever--what a
transporting idea!

63. Can you reflect on all these things, and not feel the most earnest
longings after immortality? Do not all other views and desires seem mean
and trifling, when compared with this?--And does not your inmost heart
resolve, that this shall be the chief and constant object of its wishes
and pursuit, through the whole course of your life?

64. If you are not insensible to that desire of happiness which seems
woven into our nature, you cannot surely be unmoved by the prospect of
such a transcendant degree of it; and that--continued to all
eternity--perhaps continually increasing. You cannot but dread the
forfeiture of such an inheritance as the most insupportable
evil!--Remember then--remember the conditions on which alone it can be
obtained. God will not give to vice, to carelessness, or sloth, the
prize he has proposed to virtue. You have every help that can animate
your endeavours: You have written laws to direct you--the example of
Christ and his disciples to encourage you--the most awakening motives to
engage you--and you have, besides, the comfortable promise of constant
assistance from the Holy Spirit, if you diligently and sincerely pray
for it. O! let not all this mercy be lost upon you--but give your
attention to this your only important concern, and accept, with profound
gratitude, the inestimable advantages that are thus affectionately
offered you.

65. Though the four Gospels are each of them a narration of the life,
sayings, and death of Christ; yet as they are not exactly alike, but
some circumstances and sayings omitted in one, are recorded in another,
you must make yourself perfectly master of them all.

66. The Acts of the Holy Apostles, endowed with the Holy Ghost, and
authorised by their Divine Master, come next in order to be read.
Nothing can be more interesting and edifying, than the history of their
actions--of the piety, zeal, and courage, with which they preached the
glad tidings of