PUBLISHED MONTHLY, PRICE TWOPENCE, EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE SECT WHICH IS EVERYWHERE EDITED BY MR. ARTHUR WILCOCKSON, MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL, ZION CHAPEL, WALKER STREET, HULL. VOL. XIII. HULL: TO BE HAD ONLY OF ARTHUR WILCOCKSON, 6, HAVELOCK TERRACE, DAIRYCOATES. Sent monthly through the post (free), by the Editor, C, Havelock Terrace, Hull, The Lord's Poor supplied monthly, gratuitously and post free, upon the receipt of 1871. Twenty-one Years Afflicted................ A Sermon preached by Mr. Triggs Love's Inflowings and Outflowings Rights and Privileges of Saints. ZION'S WITNESS. VOL. XII. OCTOBER, 1869. THE LIFE MORE THAN MEAT. No. 133. BELOVED IN THE LORD,-The heart-language of your Husband toward you is, "O my dove in the clefts of the rock, in the secret of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely." This is as we stand in union to our glorious Head, who is the Lord our righteousness: and unceasingly blessed it is that whatever He is in Himself, He is that both to us and for us; and "because as He is, so are we in this world." His love to us is wonderful, and I have often said that He loved me better than He loved Himself. This I speak from the feeling and knowledge that I have of His love; for He" loved me, and gave Himself for me." To me this truth is sweetly set forth in His own words, in the depth of His deep humiliation, wherein He said, "I am a worm and no man." have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with my weeping." Here I pause at the threshold of so great an outpouring of His love, and wonder at the depth of His deep stoop in taking the children's flesh, and thus under-bottoming the whole of our transgression. He took our nature, bore our sickness, carried our sorrow, endured the stroke of divine vengeance, poured out His soul unto death, was numbered with the transgresors, was made our sin, and the curse of His own law, and thus died the Just for the unjust to bring us, who were far off by wicked works, nigh to God. Though He was harmless and undefiled, yet whatever sin was He was made, and all the consequences of sin He for us endured. He "bare our sin in His own body on the tree;" and "by one offering He hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified." put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself." The knowledge and belief of these dear truths will constrain the sinner, amidst all that he may feel and experience within himself, to live and walk in peace with God as though he had never have been a sinner, and thus by his sin had not have incurred death, curse, wrath and condemnation. I now live more holy and perfect and nearer to the Lord than I did in Adam-innocency, for I am a new creature in Christ, the second Adam, the Lord from heaven; and in union with Him I am a partaker of the divine nature. This unchanging mercy and blessedness I possess at all times, and the Lord is my everlasting Light, my God, and my Glory. "He |