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THE HIDDEN
LIFE
OF
A
CHRISTIAN.
CSERM. X.
tirely
from
him, whose
love
is
secured
in
Jesús Christ;
Rout.
viii. 38,
39.
The
disciples
were
much to
blame,
that
they were overwhelmed
with.
terror
in
the midst
of
the storm,:
while
Jesus Christ
was with
them
in
the
same
ship;
and
ye
should chide
your
own souls, when you
feel
yourselves
under
such
.unbelieving fears as
our
Lord
Jesus Christ
chid in his
fearful
followers
:
"
O
ye
of
little
faith, wherefore did
ye
doubt
?"
Iid
consolation. What
a
comfortable
thought
must
it
be
to
a
poor
feeble christian,
that God
and
Christ
know all the
state
of
his
spiritual
life
?
for it
is
hid
with
them. Though the
life
of
a saint
has
a
cloud
upon
it,
though it
is
entirely hidden
from men, and ,sometimes
too
much hidden from himself
too,
yet
the Fattier and
the Saviour know every circumstance
of
it,
how
low.it
is,
how feeble,
what
daily obstacles
it
meets
with,
what
hourly
enemies
assault
it.
Christ our Lord
well
knows
when
our
life
is
in
danger, and
what are
the necessary
supplies.
This
is
very encouraging to a
poor
trembling
believer,
when
he
hardly
knows
how to
address the throne
of
grace himself
in such
a manner,
as
to
represent
all
his
wants,
and
all
his
spiritual
sorrows
and
difficulties to
God
in
prayer;
but.
our
Lord Jesus Christ,
who
is
a
compassionate
high- priest,
who is
our head,
and
near
a
-kin to
us his
members,
is
perfectly
acquainted
with
our
state
:
And the christian, mourning
under
the de-
cays
of
grace, can look up
to
Christ
with hope, he can
.mingle new
exercises
of
faith and dependence,
among
his sighs
and
his
groans, and commit
his
case afresh to
Jesus
his Saviour, with
a humble and
a
.holy
acquies-
cence
in
him.
Christ
himself, who
is
the believer's
life,
must
know,
and
will.
take
care of
all
affairs
which
relate
to
his
spiritual and eternal
welfare.
.
It
is
a
matter
of.sweet consolation too,
when
'a
hum-
ble christian,
who walks .carefully.
before God,
is
re-
proached
by
the world for a
,
deceiver and a hypocrite,
that
he
can'
;appeal
to
God,
with,
whom his
life
is
hic},
ánd
say,
"My
record
is;on
high;
though
my friends,
or
my
enemies,
may
scorn, or
deride
me,
yet
he
knoweth
the
:way
that I
take,
and the secret exercises
of
my
hid-
den life:
He..
knows, my
lodgings
and
breathings.
of
sou
after
blip,
and that nothing but
his
love can
satisfy
ine