of God."[1] And being emancipated through grace, from the servile fear of wrath and condemnation, they are enabled to approach God as their Almighty friend and Father, from whose inexhaustible fulness they receive all that they need, both for time and eternity. God deals with them as children. He manifests himself unto them as he doth not unto the world, by imparting unto them light, life, strength, comfort and consolation, to aid them to walk in the path of holiness. Once they were strangers to communion with God, but now they know what it is to enjoy sweet fellowship with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. But as they are daily exposed to a very formidable opposition to their advancement in the divine life; an opposition from the world, the flesh and Satan, through whose influence they would inevitably fall if left to themselves, the Lord draws near,—
- ↑ Rom. viii., 16.
