happy is he that can stand the tryal: for when he has undergone the test, he shall receive that crown of life which the Lord has promised to those that love him.

consider, my dear brethren, has not God chose the poor of this world to be rich by faith, and to inherit the kingdom he has promised to those who love him?

whom though you have not seen, you love: and though he is not now the object of your view, yet you believe in him, and triumph with such a laudable transport, as cannot be express'd:

let us love him; since he first loved us.

by this we may know that we love the children of God, if we love God, and keep his commandments.

Hate

what I do I allow not: for what my mind leads me to, that do I not; but what I have an aversion to, that I do.

Let love be without dissimulation. abhor that which is evil, adhere to that which is good.

Preserveth

Thomas answered, and said to him, my Lord and my God!

We know too, that all things co-operate for the good of those who love God, who, pursuant to his purpose, has now called them:

whom the divine power preserves through faith for that salvation, which is going to be made manifest in the latter time.

Delivereth

and then the lawless will be discover'd, whom the Lord will extirpate by the spirit of his mouth, and at his glorious advent, will intirely abolish him,

and that we may be delivered from vexatious wicked men; for all have not the faith.

we know that a true christian will not commit such a sin, for he that is the child of God keeps upon his guard, so that the wicked spirit does not approach him.

all that dwell upon the earth will worship him, whose names are not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the lamb, that was slain.