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Excerpt from The Church of England Magazine, Vol. 19: Under the Superintendence of Clergymen of the United Church of England and Ireland; July to December, 1845
And if he, as a servant in his ouse, could thus win and control the household by the in?uence of his exhortations and the force of his warnings, in what wer of langu did the Son over his own ouse speak to is own dis ciples; leaving for them, and for their future converts, those recorded accents which, after the e ent of near two thousand yean, proves im still, before all others, to have been the Teacher come from God? Was ever ten derness expressed in words like these: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy-laden; and I will give you rest 2 or encouragement so conveyed as in those accents In me ye shall have peace: in the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world 2 What better reply could have fallen on the ear of doubting Thomas than this sentence Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed to the hesitating disciple, what stronger correction than the words, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of heaven? Or that faithful saying of the apostle, as if drawn from his ve Master's lips, If we be dead with him, we sha l also live with him: if we suffer, we shall reign with him if we deny him, he also will deny us: if we believe not, yet he abideth faith ful; he cannot deny himself'
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