...bread, and called around him twelve legions of angels. No ; self-sacrificing and disinterested, "he that was rich, for our sakes became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich." What an example is here ! Beautiful, illustrious, divine ! How does it shame the inaction, selfishness,...

...fruits of their labours ; how much more worthy is he to be remembered, who, " though he was rich, yet for our sakes became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich." \\ ' ..'. gratitude should swell every heart, while contemplating the length •nd breadth and heigth...

...expansive benevolence, . who are blessed with property, and are friends to Him, who was rich, yet, for our sakes, became poor, that we, through his poverty, might be rich, — and request them, from love to Him and to their fellow men, to take into serious consideration...

...Benevolence to the poor ? It is thus : For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, though he was rich, for our sakes became poor, that we, through his poverty might be made rich."* And who but an apostle would have thought of enforcing conjugal affection by...

...might shew forth with it the grace which God hath shewed forth towards us in Christ, " who, though he was rich, for our sakes became poor, that we through his poverty might become rich." It is now as if men were all living under the Law, and not under the Gospel; as...

...condition; the unfailing promises of Jehovah, and the sufferings of a triumphant Saviour, who, though ' he was rich, for our sakes became poor, that we through his poverty might be made rich.' " The last words she addressed to one of her brothers, was the emphatic declaration...

...life for vile transgressors, who by their disobedience merited the lowest place in the nether world. " He who was rich, for our sakes became poor, that we, through his poverty, might be rich." He who was the heighth of glory, descended to this world, to be a mean and abject servant, exposed...

...Church ; another dies happy, because he knows and feels the grace of the Lord Jesus, who, when " he was rich, for our sakes became poor, that we, through his poverty, might be rich." (2 Cor. viii. 9.) Of the one we must say, "He feedeth upon ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him...

...of his kingdom ! He conies to his own, and his own receive him not; yet this is He, who, though he was rich, for our sakes became poor, that we through his poverty might become rich. But perhaps you say, that if you should make these efforts, there is little hope...

...of inferiors ? Above all, let us remember and imitate " the grace of the Lord Jesus, who though he was rich, for our sakes became poor ; that we, through his poverty might be made rich." He hath said/ " The poor ye have always with you ; and when ye will ye may do...