...before God ! Oh, Thou supreme, Thou infinite Excellency ! enable us to make Thee our only model, and be perfect, even as our Father which is in heaven is perfect ! DISCOURSE LXXVII. THE RULER'S DAUGHTER RAISED TO LIFE. Jlnd he put them all out, and tooh her by...

...distress? Why should we any more endeavour to be always prosperous, always well, always happy here, than to be perfect, even as our Father which is in heaven is perfect ? Both are indeed, strictly speaking, impossible. But we prove in our own conduct, that for a thing...

...worthy of His mercy, for that we never can, but to become less unworthy of it day by day, and strive to be perfect even as our Father which is in heaven is perfect ' Our enjoyments upon earth would all be sweeter than they are, our hopes of forgiveness stronger,...

...righteous it is not possible to be righteous overmuch. We are to " walk as Christ himself walked," and to " be perfect even as our Father which is in heaven is perfect. Have you attained much ? be thankful for it ; but go forward. If you were as holy as St. Paul himself,...

...: " and God proposes himself to us as our pattern, that we should " be holy, as he is holy," and " be perfect, even as our Father which is in heaven is perfect." However short of these things the Christian falls in point of practice, he desires, if it were possible,...

...and on the good, and sends rain both on the just and unjust:" and our duty is to resemble him, and to be " perfect, even as our Father which is in heaven is perfect11." If we be doubtful how far this precept is to be obeyed, the parable of the good Samaritan...

...therefore, knowing the dispositions of mankind, and professedly undertaking to correct them, exhorts us to "be perfect, even as our Father which is in , heaven is perfect." - : Among the perfections of the Godhead, those which strike our minds with the greatest awe are, omnipotence,...

...love, or a perfect piece of machinery, and yet fall very far short of infinity. Hence, we are exhorted to be "perfect, even as our father which is in heaven is perfect ;" but no one would ever think we can become infinite. 4. There is one other ground on which the infinity...

...knows no stain, and a humility of mind that is free frum all elateinc-nt . In a word, it requires us to be perfect, " even as our Father which is in heaven is perfect," Matth. v. 48. Do any of your actions come up to this exalted- standard ? Are any of your graces thus...

...sought at the hands of God, just because of continual weakness on the part of man. * We are indeed told to "be perfect, even as our Father which is in heaven is perfect," Matt. v. 48 : and St. Peter tells us : " But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in...