. The book of similitudes: . nce honored with hispresence. He approaches his victims speakingmost affectionately of mutual love. Is notGod himself declared to be Love ? How holythen is the passion! You are all one in ChristJesus. How elevated and ennobling the thought!By and by the tempter suggests, If all are one,what one possesses is equally the property of all—what is mine is yours, and what is yours is you have any thing that I want more than whatyou do, can I not take it—even the wife of yourbosom, is she not mine also ? We are freed fromthe yoke of the law, and we are so perfecte
. The book of similitudes: . nce honored with hispresence. He approaches his victims speakingmost affectionately of mutual love. Is notGod himself declared to be Love ? How holythen is the passion! You are all one in ChristJesus. How elevated and ennobling the thought!By and by the tempter suggests, If all are one,what one possesses is equally the property of all—what is mine is yours, and what is yours is you have any thing that I want more than whatyou do, can I not take it—even the wife of yourbosom, is she not mine also ? We are freed fromthe yoke of the law, and we are so perfected in lovethat we cannot sin. Reasonings like these may arise and blind thesoul to approaching foes. These mists of error con-ceal the advance of a deadly enemy. They mayeven be made to appear like the clouds of incensewhich arose in the holy temple. But we may beassured that in whatever form such reasonings ap-pear, they are but smoke-balls cast from the infernalpit, in order to deceive and ruin the soul. 100 THE BOOK OP. , t t ~a r%n«tm. Rev in. 19. Ye have seen the enda ILIZV*. U0Ve. tefdef^i Barnes fu. T*e angel of his presence°sfaZa than. Isa- l^iii. 9. CROSS-PROVIDENCES. Behold ! before the weary travelers eyes,A palace with is beauteous walls arise ;wFth ioy he seems to see his journey end,Reaves beneath its roof the night to spend,He presses on, when sudden in Ins way,A form angelic bids his footsteps stay ;He sees the glittering sword the pathway guardf en oans, perchance with tears, his fortune hard,The■ eulf with depth unknown, he sees it not,STess and mercy thus his footsteps stop;S Mercys form across his pathway moves,Ind this cross-providence salvation proves. SIMILITUDES. 161 The traveler, somewhat wearied by his journey,has come in sight of a beautiful palace where hehopes to repose, as he understands travelers canbe accommodated here with little or no himself with this prospect, he pressesforward, till he is suddenly stopped by one who
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