Instead of going on comfortably in this work, many are questioning whether they have a most holy faith. Bring this to a point this day. Has the ruinous fabric of nature's self-confidence, self-righteousness, self-complacency, and self-pleasing ever been pulled down? Has the Spirit convinced you of sin? Do you see yourself a lost, ruined sinner; so lost and so ruined by sis that no one but the Son of God can restore and save you? Do you believe that he came to save sinners? Is it the desire of your heart to be saved from all sin by him? If so, you as surely possess a holy faith as you enjoy natural life; and you will get stronger evidence and greater assurance of it, by using every blessed means to prove that you have this most holy faith, while you build up yourself on it.

This will appear to be a holy faith, by leading out your soul after a holy Saviour, to be rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith of his perfect love to you and finished salvation for you, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Col. 2:7. You will not live a day but praise will rise in your heart to the Father for his unspeakable gift of Christ; to the Son for giving himself for you; and to the Spirit for the gift of this most holy faith to you.

As you believe sin has made you miserable; that it causes God to hide his face; clouds your views of the Sun of righteousness; grieves the Holy Spirit, and damps the joys of faith; you cannot, you dare not seek happiness in the pleasures of sin; you will hate it, strive against it, that you may grow in grace and be built up in your most holy faith. As you believe that the earth and all things that are therein are doomed to be burnt up, you cannot love the world so as to set your affections on it and seek your happiness in it. You hear the voice of the Lord, "My son, give me thy heart." When tempted by the honors, riches, and pleasures of a bewitching world, you will say of all, You bid too little to purchase me: I have a holy faith; I believe that my holy God can make me infinitely more honorable, rich, and happy, than all your toys and baubles. THE LORD IS MY PORTION, saith my soul.

O christian, be this the confidence of thy most holy faith. Bless the Lord that ever it was wrought in you. Bear the fruits of righteousness, knowing that from Christ you shall "receive the end of your faith, even the salvation of your soul." I Pet. 1:9.