Christ in the Spirit is doing more powerfully on the whole
world, what He did in one country, while He was in the fiesh —
w^orking miracles of love and mercy, calling sinners to repent,
sanctifying believers, calling and empowering His ministers —
for when Matthias was elected, it was by Christ, and in answer
to tlie Apostles' prayer: "Thou Lord show which Thou hast
chosen." And He has always given success to their labors, and
comforted them in their troubles, exactly as they have looked to
Him for help; and has also made Laymen a Eoyal Priesthood
in praying, and giving, and working for all benevolent objects,
and for the world's salvation ; for they, also, receive grace for
their work, from Christ, through the Holy Spirit, as His Minis-
ters do.
Meanwhile, He has also been everywhere raising the fallen,
healing the broken hearted, and supporting the dying. All these
are His works, from the first desire of the penitent sinner until
the last Holy Communion of the dying Christian, preparing for
his entrance, in the spirit, to the Saints in Paradise.
Jesus now, by the still small voice of the Holy Spirit, yet
speaks to the conscience of men, who nevef heard of His Name,
or deathless love ; and makes Himself heard above the tumult of
the passions within, and the strife of the worl^ without, and
wa^ites His law on every mind, and moves more mysteriously
than the blowing of the wind. There is nothing too high for
His majesty and power, for He is God ; and nothing too lowly
for His love, for He is Man, and knows all our infirmities, and
experienced our death.
