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He should eye Christ as the great Lord dispensator of both faith and repentance, and hang on him for both, and thus believe, that he may believe and repent, or lay his soul open to him, that he may work in him both repentance and faith.
Consider we, what an affront and indignity it is unto the Lord dispensator of grace, that we look so lean and ill-favoured, as if there were not enough of the fattening bread of the grace of God in our Father's house, or as if the great Steward, who is full of grace and truth, were unwilling to bestow it upon us, or grudged us of our allowance, when the fault is in ourselves; we will not follow the course that wise grace and gracious wisdom hath prescribed; we will not open our mouth wide, that he might fill us; nor go to him with our narrowed or closed mouths, that grace might make way for grace, and widen the mouth for receiving of more grace; but lie by in our leanness and weakness.
Are all dispensed and given out by him, who is the executor of his own testament, and the great dispensator of all that we need; so that what we ask of the Father he giveth it himself, John xiv. 13, 14. Seventhly, He is the Truth, in that he fully answereth all the hopes and expectations of his people.
Not only would he be keeping his union fast with Christ, but he would also be eyeing Christ by faith, as his store-house, and general Lord dispensator of all the purchased blessings of the covenant, which he standeth in need of, and looking on Christ, as standing engaged by office to complete his work of salvation, and to present him with the rest to himself holy, without blemish, yea, and without spot and wrinkle, or any such thing, Eph. v. 27.
"I know where the divine Lygia is living; I will show thee the street and the house." Vinicius repressed the emotion with which that news filled him, and said, "Where is she?" "With Linus, the elder priest of the Christians. She is there with Ursus, who goes as before to the miller, a namesake of thy dispensator Demas. Yes, Demas!
Petronius looked at him with astonishment, as if he wished to make sure that his head was right. "Of whom art thou speaking?" asked he at last. "Evidently I remember Lygia." "I am her betrothed." "What!" But Vinicius sprang up and called his dispensator. "Let the slaves stand before me to the last soul, quickly!" "Art thou her betrothed?" repeated Petronius.
He remembered then that Chilo had ransomed himself from the hands of Ursus with such a cry, and he determined to remit the remainder of the punishment. With that object he was going to summon the dispensator, when that person stood before him, and said, "Lord, the old man has fainted, and perhaps he is dead. Am I to command further flogging?" "Revive him and bring him before me."
Oh, mercy, mercy!" Vinicius thrust him away with his foot, and gave the order. In the twinkle of an eye two powerful Quadi followed the dispensator, and, seizing Chilo by the remnant of his hair, tied his own rags around his neck and dragged him to the prison. "In the name of Christ!" called the Greek, at the exit of the corridor. Vinicius was left alone.
And it is by faith that those promises must be received, Heb. xi. 33: So that the believer that would grow in grace, would eye Christ, the fundamental promise, the testator establishing the testament, and the executor or dispensator of the covenant, and expect the good things through him, and from him, through the conduit and channel of the promises.
I am old, hungry, unfortunate I have served thee dost thou repay in this manner?" "As thou didst the Christians," said Vinicius. And he called the dispensator. But Chilo sprang toward his feet, and, embracing them convulsively, talked, while his face was covered with deathly pallor, "O lord, O lord! I am old! Fifty, not three hundred stripes. Fifty are enough! A hundred, not three hundred!
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