13. Mark ye well her bulwarks. Consider
most attentively how strong are her ramparts, how safely her inhabitants are
entrenched behind successive lines of defense. The security of the people of
God is not a doctrine to be kept in the background; it may be safely taught,
and frequently pondered; only to base hearts will that glorious truth prove harmful;
the sons of perdition make a stumbling-stone even of the Lord Jesus himself, so
it is little wonder that they pervert the truth of God concerning the final
perseverance of the saints. Consider her palaces. Let the royal promises
which afford quiet resting-places for believers be attentively inspected. See
how sound are the defenses. We should be best acquainted with our own home, and
the church is our dear and blest abode. So far from telling the towers, some
believers scarcely know what or where they are; they are too busy counting
their money. That ye may tell it to the generation following. We have
received and we must transmit.
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