to the individuality of the style has been sacrificed to a fastidious delicacy, and nothing tending to edification omitted. The necessity of conversion-the danger of delusion-the importance of "making thorough work" of that great business of our lives— the alone sufficiency of Christ's sacrifice for our justification our acceptance with Him, and reception of "His fulness," through faith in that sufficient sacrifice entire dependance upon Christ as the Alpha and Omega, the Author and Finisher of our faith, in whom, spiritually as well as naturally, we "live and move and have our being;”—these are the points dwelt upon in the Letters, and set forth with all the power resulting from the deep experience of a strong and ardent mind. Christ for us, with us, in us, is the theme, however the expressions may be varied according to the circumstances of the writer, or of those whom he addressed. But the Letters will speak for themselves; and they will speak to each of us with a force proportionate to the anxiety we feel to make our calling and election sure, knowing that "the time is short," and that "now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation." |