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If this be thy case, fear not, give no way to despair; thou presumest not, if thou believest to life everlasting in Jesus Christ: yea, Christ is prepared for such as thou art. Therefore take good courage and believe. The design of Satan is to tell the presumptuous, that their presuming on mercy is good; but to persuade the believer, that his believing is impudent bold dealing with God.
Knowest thou that the righteous yieldeth to no such temptations? Believest thou that there is no God? I say unto you, Nay, thou knowest that there is a God, but thou lovest that lucre more than him. And now thou hast lied before God unto me.
"I have heard," she began, faltering, "I have heard that " She stopped. Her tongue would not shape the story. But after a glance at her, he understood. "And thou hast heard it, also?" he whispered. "Thou believest it?" It seemed that to acknowledge her fear that the King had come and gone would establish the fact. "No!" she cried. "It is enough," he said nervously. "We do not well to talk of it.
"Prince," replied Almamen, turning slowly, and recognising the intruder on his meditations, "I was but considering how many revolutions, which have shaken earth to its centre, those orbs have witnessed, unsympathising and unchanged." "Unsympathising!" repeated the Moor "yet thou believest in their effect upon the earth?"
The ladder which Jacob saw in his dream is mentioned again in St. John's Gospel. Jesus said to Nathaniel, "Because I said unto thee I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? Thou shalt see greater things than these.
Now Ammon being wise, yet harmless, he said unto Lamoni: Wilt thou hearken unto my words, if I tell thee by what power I do these things? And this is the thing that I desire of thee. And the king answered him, and said: Yea, I will believe all thy words. And thus he was caught with guile. And Ammon began to speak unto him with boldness, and said unto him: Believest thou that there is a God?
This same Apostle tells us in his letter that 'Jesus Christ was manifested to take away sin. His work in this world, which we are to continue, was 'to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. We continue that work when, as we have all, if Christians, the right to do we lift up our voices with triumphant confidence, and call upon our brethren to 'behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world! The proclamation has a twofold effect, according as it is received or rejected; to him who receives it his sins melt away, and the preacher of forgiveness through Christ has the right to say to his brother, 'Thy sins are forgiven because thou believest on Him. The rejecter or the neglecter binds his sin upon himself by his rejection or neglect.
"Let them hear. God hears me not." "Hears thee not? Thou art He!" "I God!" He laughed bitterly. "Thou believest that! Thou who knowest me man!" "I know thee all divine. I have worshipped thee in joy. Art thou not Messiah?" "Messiah! Who cannot save myself!" "Who can hurt thee? Who hath ever hurt thee from thy youth up? The Angels watch over thy footsteps. Is not thy life one long miracle?"
But who told thee that thy soul was such an excellent thing as by thy practice thou declarest thou believest it to be? What! set more by thy soul than by all the world? What! cast a world behind thy back for the welfare of a soul? Is not this to play the fool, in the account of sinners, while angels wonder at and rejoice for thy wisdom?
And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings. And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
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