"Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! (8) Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. (9) And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire. (10) Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. (11) For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. (12) How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? (13) And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. (14) Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish."
Every word here is so plain, as to need no comment; and so blessedly spoken by Christ himself, as would be injured by me. I only beg to observe, upon the whole, what a charming thought it ought to be, to the humblest and poorest of Christ's little ones, while upon earth, that those who minister to them, as their angels, are always in the view of beholding the face of God in heaven. Hebrews 1:14. And let the Reader further observe upon this sweet and precious passage, that so earnest is God our Father, for the present and everlasting welfare of Christ's redeemed ones, that none of them, no not the least of them shall perish! Oh! the safety of the whole Church of Jesus! Isaiah 27:2-3; John 10:30; John 10:30.