Vol 02 - Scraps

Scraps ●The Testimony.

"I would put it to your conscience whether it must not be so, that God has ’a testimony for to-day,’ even today. I mean not merely that He bears witness by His servants both to those general truths which the being of a God, and such a One as He is, and the present fallen state of man necessitate, and to the blessed truths of grace and glory as displayed in the Gospel;-but this rather, that the grace of God vouchsafes to apply, by the Spirit, a word to things as they are; and the Lord thus gives by His servants a present testimony. This supposes neither a new revelation nor any addition to the perfected standard of truth-the Scripture, but only wisdom from on High to see how the written word bears upon things around us, and power to set this forth: but that God has a distinctive, and in some respects, peculiar application of the word of His grace to the passing hour conscientious conviction. Faith is wanted and faithfulness."

●Hope Still In God.

"Perplexed oft as to my steps, amid the anarchy around, through want of more singleness of eye with-: in,-yet this is my comfort, ’I am part of the Bride the Lamb’s wife, and I must, therefore, be, brought there where His glory requires the presence of the Bride in her perfectness.’ Faithful is, "He who has called, who will also perform. Yet a little while (how little a while!), and I and we shall all appear in His glory - shown out, loved even as He is loved."