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This was a small chest of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, and containing the two tables of the law, which were called the testimony, as bearing witness to Israel of God's will concerning their duty, and as therein bearing witness, too, of what He is. Nor must the other part of the witness-bearing of the law be left out of view, that it testifies against the transgressors of itself.
The black scaffold was lighted up with the radiance that streamed through the pearl gates. How much does the spirit of zeal, courage, witness-bearing, and discipline, stir the descendants of the martyred Covenanters in the present day? What may be said of Cargill's last years of service? How many years of persecution did he suffer? What aroused him against the king?
They are 'light' because they are 'in the Lord. But not only by the fact of the existence of such a community is the witness-bearing effected, but it comes as a personal obligation, with immense weight of pressure and immense possibilities of joy in the discharge of it, to every Christian man and woman.
But in our brave Saxon countries, where we plod threescore years and ten in the mud, and the wind keeps singing in our ears from birth to burial, we do our good and bad with a high hand, and almost offensively; and make even our alms a witness-bearing and an act of war against the wrong.
We again, on the other side, have laboured by prayers and tears, by patience and long-suffering, by gentleness and love, by sound doctrine and faithful witness-bearing against their enormities, to bring them over to us; but yet the enmity remains; so that they must conquer us, or we must conquer them.
"O Master," they said in effect, "why canst Thou not stay? Our orphaned hearts will never be able to endure the blank which Thy absence will cause. Easier could a flock of sheep withstand the onset of a pack of wolves than we the hatred of the world! And as for our witness-bearing, it will be too feeble to avail aught." And the Master, in effect, answered thus: "I will not leave you without aid.
Take another: 'To this end came I into the world that I might bear witness of the truth'. Are you in union with Him in that witness-bearing? I assure you there is a great need of it. Take still another: 'As the Father hath sent Me, even so' that is a very powerful little link 'even so send I you'. There is not only the sender and the one sent, but the same purpose in both minds.
What death they must die to accomplish this prophecy. FIRST, How they are to be considered? I answer: Not in a carnal or natural, but in a mystical sense. For, first, they are called witnesses. Both which are to be mystically taken. First, Because their testimony standeth not in their words only, but in their conversation; yea, in their suffering also: and that is a mystical witness-bearing.
Some thing I would bestow upon the reader, for him to carry with him as a memorandum, while he reads this account of things: As, First, This victory of the beast, is not to be until the witnesses have finished their testimony; and so by all that he shall do, he shall not hinder the revelation of any of the truths that they either were to bring to light, or to confirm by their witness-bearing.
God has 'shined into our hearts in order that we may give, reflecting the beams that fall upon them, 'the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Jesus Christ. Brother and sister, if you have the Christian life in your souls, one purpose of your possessing it is that you may bear witness for Him. Again, such witness-bearing is the result of all true, deep, Christian life.
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