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love me, keep my commandments," John xiv. (5.—" If a man love me, he will keep my words," ver. 23. and so Paul says, "the love of Christ constraineth us," 2 Cor. v. 14. How pleasant must that obedience be which is under such a constraint. — The Institutions of the gospel are all means of corresponding with God, and of holding communion with him; and therefore must be delightful and pleasant to those who love him “How amiable are thy, tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! my soul longeth, yea, even, fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God," Psalm, lxxxiv. 1, 2.—The joyful testimony of conscience attends the paths and ways of wisdom, which is no small source of joy. " For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation i(illegible text) the world, and more abundantly to you-ward," 2 Cor. i 12. " But let every man prove his own work and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another,"Gal. vi. 4. — The promise of special manifestation by the Spirit as the Comforter, is made to them who keep Christ's commandments;" He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he
