Christian: and as a true Churchman, he has that encouragement, which no other cause in the world can impart in the same degree:—he is calmly, soberly, demonstrably SURE, that, sooner or later, HIS WILL BE THE WINNING SIDE, and that the victory will be complete, universal, eternal.

He need not fear to look upon the efforts of Antichristian powers, as did the Holy Apostles themselves, who welcomed the first persecution in the words of the Psalmist:

“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

“The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against His Anointed.

“For of a truth against Thy Holy Child Jesus, whom Thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,

“For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.” [27]

FOOTNOTES.

[10]  Ezek. xx. 32.

[14a]  1 Sam. viii. 7, 8.

[14b]  Deut. xvii. 14–20.

[18a]  Luke x. 16.

[18b]  Hos. xiii. 11.

[18c]  1 Sum. xv. 24.

[19a]  1 Sam. xiii. 8–14.

[19b]  2 Sam. xxi. 2.

[22]  Psalm xxxvii. 1, 2, 8.

[24]  1 Sam. xv. 35.

[25]  Titus ii. 10.

[27]  Acts iv. 25–28.

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