Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the
Re 1-22, and live upon that inheritance which is Christ himself, now by faith, as ere long you will in full fruition. And as all communications from the Lord towards you, are in a way of grace, and for the glory of his grace, and all is from the Lord himself, to himself; see that that life of grace is daily maintained, and kept up, and carried on, by constant communications from him. And, Reader! do observe, how the Holy Ghost, by his servant, points out the method by which this life is preserved. As he which hath called you, is holy; so be ye holy in all manner of conversation. God's call is to holiness. And God's grace works in us this holiness in Christ, and from Christ. And hence, when he saith, be ye holy, for I am holy; this is not a bare precept, but the communication of grace enabling. He wills his people, into what He hath himself appointed. He worketh them, both to will, and to do of his pleasure. His grace is to this express purpose. And it is to the praise of the glory of his grace, when this is done. And which proves, that the work is his grace, and not man's labors, or man's merit; for then it could not be in either sense, to the praise of his grace. And, as it is on earth in, grace; so hereafter in heaven in glory, the final and full presentation of the Church is to himself, and for himself, to be to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved! Oh! the unspeakable riches of God in Christ! See a similar precept of Christ, John 15:4 and Commentary.